Colonoscopic withdrawal times and adenoma detection during screening colonoscopy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2533-2541

  Barclay, Robert L ^a,b   Vicari, Joseph J ^a,b   Doughty, Andrea S ^a   Johanson, John F ^a,b   Greenlaw, Roger L ^a,b  

^a Rockford Gastroenterology Associates   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845500545     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa055498     Document Type: Article

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