Predictors of incomplete flexible sigmoidoscopy

Journal of the American Board of Family Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 478-484

  Ramakrishnan, Kalyanakrishnan ^a   Scheid, Dewey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALGESIA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGE; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL TUMOR; GENERAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 3543083335     PISSN: 08938652     EISSN: 15448770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.16.6.478     Document Type: Review

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