MARCH 18, 2021

Bowel Preparation Quality: How to Get Perfect Bowel Preparation For Every Patient

Ekta Gupta, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

An ideal bowel preparation should have many attributes, including the ability to reliably empty the colon in a rapid fashion, without causing any gross or histologic alteration of colonic mucosa, shifts in fluids and electrolytes, or patient discomfort, and it should be relatively inexpensive.

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This article discusses quality measures for bowel preparation, as well as various