New Educational Booklet Helps Patients Prepare for Colonoscopy

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

UCLA and Veterans Affairs researchers have developed an educational booklet that can help patients better prepare for a colonoscopy. Researchers found that patients given the booklet were far more likely to arrive for their colonoscopy with a "good" preparation than patients who had received the usual preparation instructions (68 percent vs. 46 percent).

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