The ERCP-related lawsuit: "Best avoid it!"

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 385-388

  Frakes, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 32944470970     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.11.040     Document Type: Editorial

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