Judgement of the quality of bowel preparation at screening flexible sigmoidoscopy is associated with variability in adenoma detection rates

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 456-460

  Thomas Gibson, S ^a   Rogers, P ^a   Cooper, S ^b   Man, R ^a   Rutter, M D ^c   Suzuki, N ^a   Swain, D ^a   Thuraisingam, A ^d   Atkin, Wendy ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH TEES   (United Kingdom)

^d CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADENOMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENEMA; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 33646744870     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-925259     Document Type: Article

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