Sedation and gender differences in screening colonoscopy – Impact on quality indicators

Background: High quality colonoscopy is the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. Different quality indicators including cecal intubation rate and adenoma detection rate (ADR) are established. Gender differences of quality indicators are observed, but the question if these differences can be influenced by sedation remains unaddressed so far. Aim: Therefore we aim to assess the impact of sedation on quality indicators, including cecal intubation rate, complication rate and adenoma detection rate, according to gender. Methods: We analyzed 52.768 data of screening colonoscopies from November 2007 to April…