Twenty-three patients at Kaiser Permanente’s Largo (Md.) Medical Center were treated with an improperly sterilized scope during their colonoscopy or upper endoscopy procedure, Fox 5 reports. 1. In a ...
LARGO, Md. - Kaiser Permanente says a piece of equipment may not have been thoroughly disinfected and sterilized during the colonoscopy or upper endoscopy of 23 people at its medical facility in Largo ...
A study of 316,443 patients shows that 7.4% of patients repeated fecal testing rather than proceeding directly to colonoscopy as guidelines recommend, and of those who repeated home tests, over half ...