The hidden cost of colonoscopy including cost of reprocessing and infection rate: the implications for disposable colonoscopes

Gut. 2020 Feb;69(2):197-200. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-319108. Epub 2019 Aug 14.

Sara Larsen¹, Anthony Kalloo², Susan Hutfless^{3

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¹ School of Medicine and Health, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States [email protected].
⁴ Gastrointestinal Epidemiology Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Keywords: colonoscopy; endoscopy; health economics.

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