High compliance rates observed for follow up colonoscopy post polypectomy are achievable outside of clinical trials: Efficacy of polypectomy is not reduced by low compliance for follow up

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 158-161

  Colquhoun, P ^a   Chen, H C ^a   Kim, Jong Ik ^a   Efron, J ^a   Weiss, E G ^a   Nogueras, J J ^a   Vernava, A M ^a   Wexner, S D ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Compliance; Polyps; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL STUDY; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; ADULT; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2442691468     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2004.00585.x     Document Type: Review

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