Unacceptable variation in screening colonoscopy
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Inter-Physician Variation in Follow-Up Colonoscopies after Screening Colonoscopy
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l6384