Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA discusses his Original Article "Facilitating endoscopic submucosal dissection: the suture-pulley method significantly improves procedure time and minimizes technical difficulty compared with conventional technique: an ex vivo study (with video)" from the September issue. The main purpose of this study was to objectively …
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Editor-in-Chief Dr. Glenn Eisen highlights this article from the September issue: "A risk index for advanced neoplasia on the second surveillance colonoscopy in patients with previous adenomatous polyps" by Thomas F. Imperiale, MD, Ravi Juluri, MD, Eric A. Sherer, PhD, Elizabeth A. Glowinski, RN, Cynthia S. Johnson, MS, and Michael S. Morelli, MD. Recommendations for …
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Audrey Calderwood, MD, MS, FASGE from the Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA discusses her Original Article "Boston Bowel Preparation Scale scores provide a standardized definition of adequate for describing bowel cleanliness" from the August issue. The assessment of bowel cleanliness during colonoscopy (while not a glamorous topic!) is critical to the practice of …
Authors Dr. Nicholas Burgess and Dr. Michael Bourke from Westmead Hospital and the University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW, Australia discuss their Thinking Outside the Box article "Sessile serrated adenomas/polyps with cytologic dysplasia: a triple threat for interval cancer" from the August issue. Sessile serrated adenoma/polyps (SSA/P) are now recognized to play an important role …
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Folasade P. May, MD, Mphil from University of California Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California, USA discusses her Original Article "Low uptake of colorectal cancer screening among African Americans in an integrated Veterans Affairs health care network" from the August issue. We investigated disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening uptake between African Americans and non-African …
Authors Chenlu Tian, MD and Deepak Agrawal, MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas report on their Original Article "Readability, suitability, and health content assessment of web-based patient education materials on colorectal cancer screening." Our study assessed the quality of popular and reputable web-based patient education materials on colorectal cancer …
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Seok Jeong, MD from the Digestive Disease Center at the Department of Internal Medicine at Inha University School of Medicine in Incheon, Korea shares this New Methods article titled "Development of a swine bile duct dilation model using endoclips or a detachable snare under cap-assisted endoscopy" from the August issue. In this paper, we introduce …
Lukejohn Day, MD Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine presents this discussion on his Original Article "Optimizing efficiency and operations at a California safety-net endoscopy center: a modeling and simulation approach." Improvements in endoscopy center efficiency are needed, but scant data are available. Our objective was to identify opportunities …
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Associate Editor Dr. John Vargo highlights this article from the August issue: “Readability, suitability, and health content assessment of web-based patient education materials on colorectal cancer screening” by Chenlu Tian, MD, Sara Champlin, MA, Michael Mackert, PhD, Allison Lazard, MS, and Deepak Agrawal, MD. Online patient education has become a pervasive and powerful tool in …
Satoshi Shinozaki, MD, PhD from Jichi Medical University and Shinozaki Medical Clinic in Tochigi, Japan discusses his Original Article "Favorable long-term outcomes of repeat endotherapy for small-intestine vascular lesions by double-balloon endoscopy." The focus of this study is to evaluate the long-term outcome of patients with small intestine vascular lesions (SIVLs) bleeding after repeat double-balloon …
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