Bowel preparation with split-dose polyethylene glycol before colonoscopy: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1240-1245

  Kilgore, Todd W ^a   Abdinoor, Abdillahi A ^a   Szary, Nicholas M ^a   Schowengerdt, Samuel W ^a   Yust, Jamie B ^a   Choudhary, Abhishek ^a   Matteson, Michelle L ^a   Puli, Srinivas R ^b   Marshall, John B ^a   Bechtold, Matthew L ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ARTICLE; BLOATING; COLONOSCOPY; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FULL DOSE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; META ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SLEEP DISORDER; SPLIT DOSE; VOMITING;

CATHARTICS; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 79957873166     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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