Why would endoscopists at one veterans hospital have a polyp detection rate of only 18%, whereas those at another one boast a 73% rate—a fourfold difference? That’s a question raised by a study submitted to the 2020 Digestive Disease Week (abstract Mo1600).
A multicenter team of researchers examined the national administrative database of the Veterans Affairs health care system and found that across all medical centers, polyp detection rates (PDRs) varied 4.2-fold, reported Heiko