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Colonoscopy quality assessment.
AIM Colonoscopy has become accepted as the most effective method for colon exploration. Some application problems have been detected in the setting of normal clinical care due to its wide range of uses in recent years, and therefore there is a need to measure colonoscopy quality. For that purpose valid quality indicators are necessary to be defined. The application process of some quality indic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1130-0108
DOI: 10.4321/s1130-01082009000200004