Prospective Study of the Quality of Colonoscopies Performed by Primary Care Physicians: The Alberta Primary Care Endoscopy (APC-Endo) Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kolber, Michael R ^a   Wong, Clarence K W ^a   Fedorak, Richard N ^a   Rowe, Brian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADENOMA; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CECUM; CECUM INTUBATION; COLON PERFORATION; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT COMFORT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBURBAN AREA; WAIT TIME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ALBERTA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TIME FACTOR;

ADENOMA; ALBERTA; COLONOSCOPY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84879544205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067017     Document Type: Article

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