title: A comparison of four methods of bowel preparation for barium enema.
abstract: A retrospective trial was carried out comparing four methods of bowel preparation on a randomly selected group of 503 patients. The methods of bowel preparations were: (1) X-prep alone, (2) X-prep plus three-day diet, (3) X-prep plus high colonic washout, (4) X-prep plus high colonic washout and three day diet. Faecal content was assessed independently by three radiologists and recorded on a linear analogue scale. Statistically significant differences were shown between the results obtained by each method; 97% of patients prepared by method (4) were acceptable, 89% of method (2), 83% of method (3) and 71% of method (1). It was also found that in-patients exposed to the same method of preparation as out-patients showed inferior bowel cleanliness although not to a statistically significant degree.
mesh_terms: D000880:Anthraquinones; D001466:Barium Sulfate; D002400:Cathartics / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D003106:Colon; D004032:Diet; D004043:Dietary Fiber / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004733:Enema / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000880:Anthraquinones; D002400:Cathartics; D004043:Dietary Fiber; D001466:Barium Sulfate; C029418:X-prep