Screening: Side Effects From Endoscopic Procedures

Instead of relying on doctors’ reports about adverse events, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston used electronic medical records to track emergency visits and hospital admissions that occurred within two weeks of a colonoscopy or upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy and that appeared to be related to the procedures…

“A lot of low-level complications were flying under the radar,” said Dr. Daniel Leffler, the paper’s lead author and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard…