Quality and safety issues in procedural rural practice: A prospective evaluation of current quality and safety guidelines in 3000 colonoscopies

Rural and Remote Health

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Azzopardi, J ^a   De Witt, D E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre Vancouver Coastal Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Australia; Bowel cancer screening; Colonoscopy; Victoria

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; EDUCATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; MIDDLE AGED; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT READMISSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84871684758     PISSN: 14456354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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