An endoscopist-blinded, randomized, controlled trial of a simple visual aid to improve bowel preparation for screening colonoscopy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-314

  Calderwood, Audrey H ^a   Lai, Edwin J ^a   Fix, Oren K ^b   Jacobson, Brian C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOSTON BOWEL PREPARATION SCALE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL AID;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHARTICS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551684245     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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