Research Offers Road Map To Safer Pain Control, Cost Savings During Colonoscopies

At a time when several U.S. health insurers have announced plans to discontinue payment for use of the sedative propofol during most screening colonoscopies, physicians at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered that an alternative way to administer the drug could both save millions of health care dollars and provide a safer way to deliver optimal pain relief.

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Filed under: Colorectal Cancer on March 14th, 2008