Colonoscopy

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	Flexible sigmoidoscopy
METEOR identifier:	697166
Registration status:	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 11/09/2018
Definition:	An examination of the entire large bowel using a camera on a flexible tube, which is passed through the anus (CCA 2017).

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Reference documents:	CCA (Cancer Council Australia) 2017. Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer. Sydney: CCA. Viewed 15 May 2018, http://wiki.cancer.org.au/australia/Guidelines:Colorectal_cancer.
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Clinical care standard indicators: colonoscopy Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 11/09/2018 Health, Standard 26/03/2019 Clinical care standard indicators: colonoscopy Health, Qualified 19/09/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 1-Proportion of patients scheduled for a colonoscopy whose bowel preparation was adequate Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 11/09/2018 Health, Standard 26/03/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 1-Proportion of patients scheduled for a colonoscopy whose bowel preparation was adequate Health, Qualified 19/09/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 2-Proportion of patients undergoing a colonoscopy who have their entire colon examined Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 11/09/2018 Health, Standard 26/03/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 2-Proportion of patients undergoing a colonoscopy who have their entire colon examined Health, Qualified 19/09/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 3-Proportion of patients who had a colonoscopy that detected one or more adenoma(s) Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 11/09/2018 Health, Standard 26/03/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 3-Proportion of patients who had a colonoscopy that detected one or more adenoma(s) Health, Qualified 19/09/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 4-Proportion of patients who had a colonoscopy that detected one or more sessile serrated adenoma(s) or sessile serrated polyp(s) Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 26/06/2019 Colonoscopy clinical care standard indicators: 4-Proportion of patients who had a colonoscopy that detected one or more sessile serrated adenoma(s) or sessile serrated polyp(s) Health, Qualified 19/09/2019