Inter-Physician Variation in Follow-Up Colonoscopies after Screening Colonoscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Stock, Christian ^a,b   Hoffmeister, Michael ^a   Birkner, Berndt ^c,d   Brenner, Hermann ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Gastroenterological Practice   (Germany)

^d Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Bavaria   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON ADENOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTER-PHYSICIAN VARIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 84880397454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069312     Document Type: Article

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