Transparent cap improves patients' tolerance of colonoscopy and shortens examination time by inexperienced endoscopists

Journal of Digestive Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 364-368

  Dai, Jun ^a   Feng, Nan ^a   Lu, Hong ^a   Li, Xiao Bo ^a   Yang, Chuan Hua ^a   Ge, Zhi Zheng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Diagnosis introduction; Transparent cap

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAP FITTED COLONOSCOPY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CECUM; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649553404     PISSN: 17512972     EISSN: 17512980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-2980.2010.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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