Pain or performance: what's more important during colonoscopy?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 430-431

  Benjamin, Stanley B ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; CECUM; COLONOSCOPY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNOLOGY;

ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; COLONOSCOPES; COLONOSCOPY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 33847020061     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.11.020     Document Type: Editorial

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