Colonoscopy completion and complication rates in a community gastroenterology practice

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 556-562

  Rathgaber, Scott W ^a   Wick, Theresa M ^a  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GROUP PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GROUP PRACTICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33748693692     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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