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Published in final edited form as: Gastrointest Endosc. 2015 Oct;82(4):676–682. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2014.12.058

Appendix Table 2.

Polypectomy rate stratified by size of polyp. This analysis was performed to assess whether increase in polyp detection and adenoma detection was driven primarily by physicians finding small polyps.

	All Colonoscopies (n=17,526)	Colonoscopies before Public Reporting (July ‘09–April ‘10) (n=2,627)	Colonoscopies after Public Reporting (Nov ‘10–May ‘13) (n=14,899)	P value
All polyp sizes	9,299 (53.1%)	1,227 (46.7%)	8,072 (54.2%)	<0.001
Polyp size 1–3 mm	1387 (7.9%)	175 (6.7%)	1212 (8.1%)	0.01
Polyp size 4–6 mm	3756 (21.4%)	425 (16.2%)	3331 (22.4%)	<0.001
Polyp size 7–9 mm	1395 (8.0%)	208 (7.9%)	1187 (8.0%)	0.932
Polyp size 10 mm or greater	1,905 (10.9%)	299 (11.4%)	1606 (10.8%)	<0.001
Size not reported	856 (4.9%)	120 (4.6%)	736 (4.9%)	0.415