Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy and the Risk of Interval Cancer
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- 13 May 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 362 (19), 1795-1803
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa0907667
Abstract
Although rates of detection of adenomatous lesions (tumors or polyps) and cecal intubation are recommended for use as quality indicators for screening colonoscopy, these measurements have not been validated, and their importance remains uncertain.Keywords
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