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Endoscopy 2008; 40(6): 523-528
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-995786
Editorial

© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Do we need to embrace adenoma detection rate as the main quality control parameter during colonoscopy?

J.-F.  Bretagne1 , T.  Ponchon2
  • 1Service des Maladies de l’Appareil Digestif, Rennes, France
  • 2Fédération d’Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Lyon, France
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Recent US guidelines state that, at screening colonoscopy in individuals above 50 years of age, adenoma detection rates must be higher than 25 % in men and 15 % in women [1]. Should European gastroenterologists embrace the adenoma detection rates of the US gastroenterologists as the main quality control parameter during colonoscopy?

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J.-F. Bretagne, MD 

Service des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif

Hôpital Pontchaillou

35033 Rennes

France

Email: jean-francois.bretagne@chu-rennes.fr