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Nicolas-Perez, A. We addressed the following key questions:. Key Question 1. Does the incidence of anesthesia-related harms by NPO status vary by: a patient characteristics age, race, sex, obesity, comorbidities or b sedation moderate, deep? Key Question 2. What is the effect of variable timing of bowel prep and NPO status on the quality of the bowel preparation, diagnostic yield, and colonoscopy procedural quality indicators eg , completion rates, adenoma detection rate, total procedure time, cecal intubation time and withdrawal time?
Key Question 3. What is the effect of NPO status prior to colonoscopy on resource use eg , costs, unused procedure slots, delays in rescheduling, delays in diagnosis, increased volume of procedures, scheduler and nursing time associated with cancelled or delayed procedures?
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