Multicenter evaluation of training of non‐endoscopists in 30‐cm flexible sigmoidoscopy

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 26-30

  Weissman, Gary S ^a   Winawer, Sidney J ^b   Baldwin, Margaret P ^c   Miller, Carlyle H ^b   Cummins, Richard L ^d   Ephraim, Robert ^c   Talbott, Timothy M ^e   Dixon, John A ^f   Schapiro, Melvin ^g,h  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Institute‐Strang Clinic ^*  (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Ferguson Clinic   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Valley Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLORECTAL CANCER; DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TRAINING;

COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0023190176     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: 15424863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.37.1.26     Document Type: Article

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