Top tips on organizing effective bowel preparation in the unit

One of the most important aspects of a high-quality colonoscopy is the bowel preparation, eg, quality of bowel preparation, patient adherence, simple instructions, and reminders. In this issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Dr Aasma Shaukat provides easy-to-follow tips and instruc-tions on how to organize an effective bowel preparation in the endoscopy unit. She highlights the importance of sim-ple instructions, multiple methods and languages for providing the information, training of personnel who pro-vide the instructions, and periodic review or audit of the methods used.