Primary care physician attitudes toward endoscopic screening for GERD symptoms and unsedated esophagoscopy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 228-233

  Boolchand, Vikram ^b   Faulx, Ashley ^b   Das, Ananya ^b   Zyzanski, Stephen ^b   Isenberg, Gerard ^b   Cooper, Gregory ^b   Sivak Jr , Michael V ^b   Chak, Amitabh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; CHRONICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30944436682     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.06.044     Document Type: Article

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