Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Endoscopic Quality Improvement Program

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: Endoscopic Quality Improvement Program

Official Title: The Effect of an Intensive Endoscopic Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP) on Improved Detection and Classification of Non-polypoid (Flat and Depressed) and Polypoid Colorectal Adenomas. ("EQUIP" Study)

Study ID: NCT01415817

Conditions

Adenomatous Polyps

Colorectal Polyps

Interventions

Training session

Study Description

Brief Summary: Effective colorectal cancer (CRC) screening relies on early identification and removal of both polypoid and non-polypoid lesions with neoplastic potential. The investigators hypothesize that an intensive training program designed to enhance both recognition and classification of lesions with neoplastic potential, will result in an increase in non-polypoid adenoma detection in addition to and independent of an increase in overall adenoma detection rates.

Detailed Description: Our Endoscopic Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP) was a prospective educational intervention with our staff endoscopist as our study population. The investigators measured adenoma detection rates for a baseline period then randomly assigned half of the endoscopists to undergo EQUIP training. The investigators then examined baseline and post-training study adenoma detection rates (ADR's) for all endoscopist (trained and un-trained) to evaluate the impact of training.