The indications, utilization and safety of gastrointestinal endoscopy in an extremely elderly patient cohort

Endoscopy

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 580-584

  Clarke, G A ^a   Jacobson, B C ^a   Hammett, R J ^a   Carr Locke, D L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOCAINE; FENTANYL CITRATE; MIDAZOLAM;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON PERFORATION; COLONOSCOPY; ELDERLY CARE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENOSTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEDATION; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0034929443     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-15313     Document Type: Article

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