A quantitative assessment of the risks and cost savings of forgoing histologic examination of diminutive polyps

Endoscopy

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 683-691

  Kessler, W R ^a   Imperiale, T F ^a,c   Klein, R W ^b   Wielage, R C ^b   Rex, D K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Medical Decision Modeling Inc   (United States)

^c REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; DECISION ANALYTIC MODEL; DIMINUTIVE POLYP; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORATION; POLYP; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ADENOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961128559     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1256381     Document Type: Article

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