Short refreshers boost detection of serrated polyps

Just 1.5 hours of education can increase the detection rate by 35%, shows study
Clare Pain
Colonoscopy equipment

Two extra training sessions dedicated to serrated polyps can boost detection by more than one-third over four years in a population screening setting, Dutch researchers have found.

In a prospective trial, which was not randomised, 17 endoscopists from nine centres involved in the Netherlands’ national faecal immunochemical test (FIT)-based screening program underwent a 45-minute training session and repeated it three years later.