The effect of prior colonic imaging on endoscopic productivity: Potential impact of computed tomographic colonography

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1124-1127

  Hur, Chin ^a,b,d   Gazelle, G Scott ^a,b,c   Hsu, Ellen H ^a   Halpern, Elkan F ^a,b   Podolsky, Daniel K ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRODUCTIVITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EFFICIENCY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27644598987     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-3565(05)00534-3     Document Type: Article

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