Table 5.
Adverse events for colonoscopies
| Colonoscopy adverse event | Procedures with adverse events, % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural | Referral | Rural (comorbidity level 0) | Referral (comorbidity level 0) | |
| Any colonoscopy complication | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| Sepsis | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Myocardial infarction | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Cerebrovascular accident (stroke) | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Deep vein thrombosis | 0.0 | 0.03 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Aspiration pneumonia | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Bowel injury | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Acute renal failure | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Heavy bleeding postprocedure | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Cut, puncture, perforation, or hemorrhage | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Wound disruption | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Surgical site infection | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Foreign body | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Problems with airways in postanesthesia recovery, excluding aspiration pneumonia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Bladder injury | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Blood transfusion | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Cardiac pulmonary resuscitation | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |