Colonoscopies in Portuguese District Hospitals: A multicentric transverse study

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 912-917

  Cremers, M I ^a   Marques Vidal, P ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SÃO BERNARDO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR JOÃO LOBO ANTUNES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Transverse study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GEOGRAPHY; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYP; POLYPECTOMY; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SEDATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTUGAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750977252     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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