Evidence-Based Assessment of Endoscopic Simulators for Training

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 489-509

  Gerson, Lauren B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIOPSY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; TRAINING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; MANIKINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33746314211     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2006.03.015     Document Type: Review

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