0 a medical examination of the colon (= the lower part of the tube that takes solid waste out of your body) --
Lowering colonoscopy costs greatly improved the cost-effectiveness of colonoscopy ever y 10 years.
Sigmoidoscopy does not permit examination beyond the left (descending) side of the colon, whereas colonoscopy offers the potential of surveying the entire colon.
In severe resistant constipation, the regimen should include a colonic lavage preparation used for colonoscopy.
For one individual in center 7, for example, sigmoidoscopy led directly to surgery, followed by three outpatient attendances, and a follow-up colonoscopy.
On the contrary, changes in the costs of fecal occult blood test kit and colonoscopy had a stronger impact.
For follow-up of positive cases in the fecal occult blood test, the same recommendation includes colonoscopy as the procedure of choice.
Colonoscopy costs have the largest influence on the results.
Three homogenous cost-minimization analyses were identified, which all compare genetic testing with conventional colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy based on family risk only (3;7;10).
