JULY 31, 2018

Eyes on the Size: Visual Guide to Polyps Improves ADR

Endoscopists who had quick access to a visual “polyp-sizing guide” judged lesions to be larger than those they measured before the intervention, and as a result substantially increased their ability to detect adenomas , researchers have found.

“Our main finding was that hanging a polyp-sizing poster by the TV monitor in the endoscopy suite provided a visual reminder of how to size polyps, and it improved the accuracy of sizing for endoscopists, especially those under the age of