A Program to Enhance Completion of Screening Colonoscopy Among Urban Minorities

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-450

  Chen, Lea Ann ^a   Santos, Stephanie ^a   Jandorf, Lina ^a   Christie, Jennifer ^a   Castillo, Anabella ^a   Winkel, Gary ^b   Itzkowitz, Steven ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMA; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLONOSCOPY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SCREENING; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADENOMA, VILLOUS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATORS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEW YORK; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 41149097459     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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