The offer of advanced endoscopic imaging techniques lead to higher acceptance rates for colonoscopy – A prospective study

Background: Colonoscopy requires public and professional acceptance to ensure the ongoing success of screening programs. Aim: Prospective assessment whether patients awareness and acceptance rates to undergo screening or surveillance colonoscopy could be improved by the offer of advanced imaging techniques, including chromoendoscopy, magnification endoscopy, spectroscopy, confocal laser endomicroscopy, endocytoscopy, capsule endoscopy, CT-colonography or device-assisted enteroscopy. Methods: Overall, 372 randomly selected patients (168 female, 204 male) were prospectively included. At baseline, a standardized qu…