Are you safe for your patients - How many ERCPs should you be doing?

Endoscopy

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 675-676

  Guda, N M ^a,b   Freeman, M L ^c  

^a ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SELF REPORT;

EID: 49749111957     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1077486     Document Type: Editorial

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