PHILADELPHIA—The risks for repeat colonoscopy and post-colonoscopy bleeding were found to be higher among patients whose index colonoscopy was performed by endoscopists who frequently perform hot snare polypectomy, a retrospective analysis of more than 1.5 million colonoscopies has found.
“This is the first study of endoscopist-level measurement of polypectomy practice,” according to lead investigator Seth Crockett, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine and the section head of