Study: 1 Percent of Patients Require ER Visit After Outpatient Endoscopy

A new study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine revealed that one percent of all patients undergoing outpatient endoscopic procedures suffer serious enough complications to require admission to an emergency department, according to the study and a report in The New York Times.

Using electronic medical records, the researchers evaluated 6,383 esophagogastroduodenoscopies and 11,632 colonoscopies, of which 132 resulted in procedure-related ED visits and 76 required procedure-related hospitalizations within two weeks of the procedures.

The one percent incidence of hospital visits was 2-3 times higher than recent estimates.

Read the Archives of Internal Medicine study about outpatient endoscopy complications.

Read the report in The New York Times about endoscopic procedure safety.

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