Colonoscopy and its complications across a Canadian regional health authority

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2009, Pages 665-671

  Singh, Harminder ^a   Penfold, Robert B ^a   DeCoster, Carolyn ^a   Kaita, Lisa ^a   Proulx, Cindy ^a   Taylor, Gerry ^a   Bernstein, Charles N ^a   Moffatt, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; DIVERTICULITIS; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PNEUMONIA; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANITOBA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 61349149324     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.09.046     Document Type: Article

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