Nurse specialist led flexible sigmoidoscopy in an outpatient setting

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 390-393

  Kelly, S B ^a   Murphy, J ^a   Smith, A ^a   Watson, H ^a   Gibb, S ^a   Walker, C ^a   Reddy, R ^a  

^a NORTH TYNESIDE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexible sigmoidoscopy; Nurse specialist

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTERITIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM PERFORATION; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RECTUM ULCER; SIGMOIDOSCOPE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE CLINICIANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 42149115693     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: 14631318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01271.x     Document Type: Article

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