Trial reportBMC surgery2012
Usefulness of a fast track list for anxious patients in a upper GI endoscopy.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Optimal approach to prohibit drinking water prior to EGE in middle-aged and elderly individuals.BMC gastroenterology · 2026Trial
- Quality of Life of Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Literary Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2024Review
- Quality of Life and Psychological Wellbeing of Colorectal Cancer Survivors in the KSA.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2022Article
- Improvement in appropriateness and diagnostic yield of fast-track endoscopy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Italy.Endoscopy · 2021Article
- Prevention of overuse: A view on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.World journal of gastroenterology · 2019Review
- Learning curve for endorectal ultrasound in young and elderly: lights and shades.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2016Article
- Laparoscopic vs. open approach for colorectal cancer: evolution over time of minimal invasive surgery.BMC surgery · 2013Article
- Review
- Does anxiety or waiting time influence patients' tolerance of upper endoscopy?Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology AssociationArticle
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Abstract
backgroundTo determine whether patients with no alarm signs who ask the endoscopist to shorten their waiting time due to test result anxiety, represent a risk category for a major organic pathology.
methodsAt our open-access endoscopy service, we set up an expedite list for six months for outpatients who complained that the waiting time for gastroscopy was too long. Over this period we studied 373 gastroscopy patients. In addition to personal details, we collected information on the presence of Hp infection and compliance with dyspepsia guideline indications for gastroscopy.
resultsAverage waiting time was 38.2 days (SD 12.7). The 66 patients who considered the waiting time too long underwent gastroscopy within 15 days. We made 5 diagnoses of esophageal and gastric tumour and gastric ulcer (7.6%) among the expedite list patients and 14 (4.6%) among those on the normal list (p=0.31). On including duodenal peptic disease in the analysis, the total prevalence rate rose to 19.7% in the short-wait group and to 10.4% (p=0.036) in the longer-wait group. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsOur data suggests that asking to be fast-tracked does not have prognostic impact on the diagnosis of a major (gastric ulcer and cancer) pathology.
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