Usefulness of a fast track list for anxious patients in a upper GI endoscopy

BMC Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Cardin, Fabrizio ^a   Andreotti, Alessandra ^b   Zorzi, Manuel ^c   Terranova, Claudio ^a   Martella, Bruno ^a   Amato, Bruno ^d   Militello, Carmelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b C Ricerca and Analisi Statistica Padova   (Italy)

^c VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DUODENUM ULCER; DYSPEPSIA; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROSCOPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STOMACH TUMOR; STOMACH ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; DUODENAL ULCER; DYSPEPSIA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STOMACH ULCER; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84869464371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-12-S1-S11     Document Type: Article

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