Endoscopy by nonphysicians

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 767-770

  Ikenberry, Steven O ^a   Anderson, Michelle A ^a   Banerjee, Subhas ^a   Baron, Todd H ^a   Dominitz, Jason A ^a   Gan, Seng Ian ^a   Harrison, M Edwyn ^a   Jagannath, Sanjay ^a   Levy, Michael ^a   Lichtenstein, David ^a   Shen, Bo ^a   Fanelli, Robert D ^a   Stewart, Leslie ^a   Khan, Khalid ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TRAINING;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS;

EID: 62649096795     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.11.006     Document Type: Article

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