[genewitch]

we're both being jerks, so let's both stop. Me first. Sorry. the AJG paper shows 5.15 (the meta study) and JAMA shows 3.1

those two numbers fall within the range of "3 - 5 per 10,000"

the thing in the first sentence of my reply is called a DOI, it's a document identifier, that you can type into google or bing and it will pull up the correct journal citation i was citing.

I understand that the JAMA paper said 3.1, but it also said a number almost 5 times higher near there for "major complication", separate from perforation.

My original reply, where i did the > block quote, is from the AJG source; 10.14309/ajg.0000000000003429

And, for all we know someone is using a roto-rooter to perform colonoscopies and throwing the statistics off