Training and transfer of colonoscopy skills: a multinational, randomized, blinded, controlled trial of simulator versus bedside training

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 298-307

  Haycock, Adam ^a   Koch, Arjun D ^a   Familiari, Pietro ^a   van Delft, Foke ^a   Dekker, Evelien ^a   Petruzziello, Lucio ^a   Haringsma, Jelle ^a   Thomas Gibson, Siwan ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRAINING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 75749150687     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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