In Search of Quality Colonoscopy

Gastroenterology

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1845-1847

  Inadomi, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; BLEEDING; CANCER MORTALITY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; ECONOMICS; EDITORIAL; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; PERFORATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 57249094014     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.11.003     Document Type: Editorial

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