Screening Colonoscopy: A New Frontier for Nurse Practitioners

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 106-108

  Hutfless, Susan ^a   Kalloo, Anthony N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SCREENING; SCREENING COLONOSCOPY;

AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PRACTITIONERS;

EID: 84872386565     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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