Clinical Trial Design and Colonoscopy Prep for Patients With IBD

Miguel Regueiro, MD

Professor of Medicine
Chair of the Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland

This month’s edition of The Regueiro Report looks at minimizing placebo effects in clinical trials and at an encouraging finding that low-volume colonoscopy preparations are safe and efficacious for people with inflammatory bowel disease.

In the first study I discuss, the researchers found that people with Crohn’s