Providing an endoscopy report to patients after a procedure: a low-cost intervention with high returns

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-111

  Spodik, Maya ^a   Goldman, Joshua ^a   Merli, Kirsten ^a   Walker, Cathy ^a   Alpini, Barbara ^a   Kastenberg, David ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOCUMENTATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ACCESS TO RECORDS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 37249046999     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.08.035     Document Type: Article

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