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Complications of Colonoscopy
IN RESPONSE:
I thank Drs. McDonnell and Loura for their interest in our paper. Their comments reflect what may be a misunderstanding about how our study was conducted, which procedures and patients were included, and the status and training of the endoscopists in our study.
First, all the endoscopists included in our study were staff physicians, and no trainees were involved. Second, more than half of the identified colonoscopies in the various databases used to build the study data set were not included in the analysis. …
