Study author William F. Ergen, MD, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and colleagues analyzed 85 patients. Of those patients, researchers assigned the booklet to 45 patients, leaving 40 patients without the booklet. The score for adequate bowel preparation was 4.
Here are three points:
1. Researchers found adequate bowel preparation for 62 percent of patients who received the booklet, compared to 35 percent of those who did not.
2. The booklet group’s odds of achieving adequate bowel preparation was 3.14, compared to the control group’s score of 2.27.
3. Three booklet patients and nine non-booklet patients had a bowel preparation score of 0.
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