Successful colonoscopy; completion rates and reasons for incompletion

Ulster Medical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 34-37

  Mitchell, R M S ^a   McCallion, K ^a   Gardiner, K R ^a   Watson, R G P ^a   Collins, J S A ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN IRELAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036076935     PISSN: 00416193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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