Open AccessReview of small-bowel cleansing scales in capsule endoscopy: A panoply of choices
Author(s) -
Ana Ponte,
Rolando Pinho,
Adélia Rodrigues,
João Carvalho
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
world journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1948-5190
DOI - 10.4253/wjge.v8.i17.600
Subject(s) - capsule endoscopy , medicine , grading (engineering) , bowel preparation , data cleansing , clinical practice , endoscopy , medical physics , radiology , colonoscopy , family medicine , data quality , metric (unit) , operations management , civil engineering , colorectal cancer , cancer , engineering , economics
Evaluation of the quality of small-bowel cleansing is required to assess the reliability of findings in capsule endoscopy (CE). Moreover, consensus regarding the need of intestinal preparation for CE remains to be achieved. The presence of multiple grading scales for small-bowel preparation in CE, which are time-consuming and complicated, adds difficulty to the comparison of different small-bowel cleansing regimens and their application in clinical practice. Nowadays, a validated scale universally accepted for grading small-bowel cleansing is lacking. In fact, there are numerous grading systems with very different technical characteristics, namely, the parameters and the portion of the CE video that are analyzed, the objectivity of the analysis, the lesser or greater dependency on the operator, and the validation of the score. The authors performed a review which aims to systematize and summarize currently available small-bowel grading scales in CE.