Improving sessile serrated adenoma detection rates with high definition colonoscopy: A retrospective study
Abhinav Sehgal, Soorya Aggarwal, Rohan Mandaliya, Thomas Loughney, Mark C Mattar
Abhinav Sehgal, Department of Gastroenterology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20007, United States
Soorya Aggarwal, Rohan Mandaliya, Thomas Loughney, Mark C Mattar, Division of Gastroenterology, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC 20007, United States
Author contributions: Sehgal A, Aggarwal S, Mandaliya R, Loughney TM, and Mattar MC designed the research study; Sehgal A and Aggarwal S performed the research; Sehgal A collected and analyzed the data; Sehgal A and Aggarwal S wrote the manuscript; All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: As our retrospective study qualified as a quality improvement project, our institution did not require IRB approval for our study.
Informed consent statement: As our study was a quality-improvement study with retrospective chart review, informed consent was not necessary at our institution. Any and all details that might disclose the identity of the subjects included in our study were omitted.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflict of interests that are related to the work submitted for consideration of publication.
Data sharing statement: Dataset available from the corresponding author at as4426@georgetown.edu. Consent was not obtained but the presented data are anonymized and risk of identification is low.
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http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Abhinav Sehgal, BSc, Academic Research, Department of Gastroenterology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007, United States. as4426@georgetown.edu
Received: July 14, 2021
Peer-review started: July 14, 2021
First decision: September 5, 2021
Revised: September 13, 2021
Accepted: January 25, 2022
Article in press: January 25, 2022
Published online: April 16, 2022