Regional variation in anesthesia assistance during outpatient colonoscopy is not associated with differences in polyp detection or complication rates

Gastroenterology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 298-306

  Dominitz, Jason A ^a,b   Baldwin, Laura Mae ^b   Green, Pamela ^a   Kreuter, William I ^b   Ko, Cynthia W ^b  

^a Puget Sound Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal Cancer Screening; Cost Efficacy; Pain; Quality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIST; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGRO; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; POLYP; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ANESTHESIA; COLON POLYP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTPATIENTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880218664     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.10.038     Document Type: Article

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