Design of a multicentre randomized trial to evaluate CT colonography versus colonoscopy or barium enema for diagnosis of colonic cancer in older symptomatic patients: The SIGGAR study

Trials

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Halligan, Steve ^a   Lilford, Richard J ^b   Wardle, Jane ^c   Morton, Dion ^d   Rogers, Pauline ^e   Wooldrage, Katherine ^e   Edwards, Rob ^e   Kanani, Reshma ^e   Shah, Urvi ^e   Atkin, Wendy ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 37849014128     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-8-32     Document Type: Article

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