{"id":14051,"date":"2023-04-27T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=14051"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T12:00:25","slug":"colonoscopy-quality-appears-to-be-good-in-u-s-veterans-administration-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/colonoscopy-quality-appears-to-be-good-in-u-s-veterans-administration-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonoscopy Quality Appears To Be Good in U.S. Veterans Administration Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a study of 29,877 patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) in the U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, the rate of postcolonoscopy colorectal cancer (PCCRC), defined as CRC diagnosed 6 to 36 months after a colonoscopy, was 6%. PCCRC was more likely when colonoscopy was performed outside the VA system (odds ratio [OR], 2.58) and less likely when performed by a gastroenterologist (OR, 0.48). PCCRC was more likely to be a right-sided colon cancer (OR, 2.01).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patients with PCCRC were also more likely to present with bowel obstruction (OR, 1.64) or peritonitis (OR, 1.96), but all-cause mortality and cancer-specific mortality were nearly identical for PCCRC and colonoscopy-detected cancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study of 29,877 patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) in the U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system, the rate of postcolonoscopy colorectal cancer (PCCRC), defined as CRC diagnosed 6 to 36 months after a colonoscopy, was 6%. PCCRC was more likely when colonoscopy was performed outside the VA system (odds ratio [OR], 2.58) &#8230; <a title=\"Colonoscopy Quality Appears To Be Good in U.S. Veterans Administration Hospitals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/colonoscopy-quality-appears-to-be-good-in-u-s-veterans-administration-hospitals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Colonoscopy Quality Appears To Be Good in U.S. Veterans Administration Hospitals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2058,1823,1343,2485,2484,3699],"class_list":["post-14051","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-colon-2","tag-colorectal-cancer","tag-crc","tag-pccrc","tag-postcolonoscopy-colorectal-cancer","tag-veterans-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/14051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}