Doctors who listen to Mozart while performing optical colonoscopy may increase their adenoma detection rate, according to a presentation on Monday at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) annual meeting in Washington, DC.
The study by Dr. Catherine O'Shea and colleagues from the University of Texas tracked adenoma detection rates -- the percentage of patients in whom an adenoma was found -- in a randomized, controlled trial. Two highly experienced readers were randomly assigned to music or no music, and the adenoma detection rates were compared to baseline rates calculated over a one-year period prior to the start of the study.
Reader 1, who was blinded to outcomes, had an adenoma detection rate of 66.7% while listening to Mozart and 30.4% without music. Reader 2, who was unblinded to outcomes, had an adenoma detection rate of 36.7% while listening to music and 40.5% without music. Baseline detection rates for readers 1 and 2 were 21.25% and 27.16%, respectively.
