Effectiveness in Bowel Cleansing and Patient Tolerability of Polyethylene Glycol versus Sodium Picosulphate in Patients Undergoing Colonoscopy

Table 3

Bowel cleansing efficacy assessed by using the Aronchick Bowel Preparation Scale.

Aronchick scale	Cleansing agent		Total	value
	PEG	Na PICOSUL
Excellent (1)	19 (63.3%)	10 (29.4%)	29 (45.3%)	0.028
Good (2)	5 (16.7%)	5 (14.7%)	10 (15.6%)
Fair (3)	3 (10.0%)	14 (41.2%)	17 (26.6%)
Poor (4)	2 (6.7%)	3 (8.8%)	5 (7.8%)
Inadequate (5)	1 (3.3%)	2 (5.9%)	3 (4.7%)
Total cases	30 (100%)	34 (100%)	64 (100%)