Gastroenterology
Volume 135, Issue 6 , Pages 1899-1906.e1 , December 2008

Bleeding and Perforation After Outpatient Colonoscopy and Their Risk Factors in Usual Clinical Practice

  • Linda Rabeneck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Linda Rabeneck, MD, MPH, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave, T2-025, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada. fax: (416) 480-5804
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  • Lawrence F. Paszat

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Robert J. Hilsden

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    • Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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  • Refik Saskin

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Des Leddin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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  • Eva Grunfeld

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    • ,
  • Elaine Wai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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  • Meredith Goldwasser

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Rinku Sutradhar

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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  • Therese A. Stukel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Received 13 May 2008 ,Accepted 21 August 2008.

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 The authors disclose the following: Supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

PII: S0016-5085(08)01673-9

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.08.058

Gastroenterology
Volume 135, Issue 6 , Pages 1899-1906.e1 , December 2008

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