A New Paradigm for Increasing Use of Open-Access Screening Colonoscopy

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-378

  Holt, Cheryl L ^a   Schroy III, Paul C ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PATIENT REFERRAL;

AMBULATORY CARE; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; COLONOSCOPY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH EDUCATORS; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 41149144754     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2008.02.015     Document Type: Editorial

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