Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 180-189, August 2002

Predicting which patients can undergo upper endoscopy comfortably without conscious sedation☆☆☆★

Montréal, Canada

Current affiliations: The Divisions of Gastroenterology of the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the McGill University Health Centre, the Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Received 10 July 2001; received in revised form 12 October 2001; accepted 20 February 2002.

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☆ Dr. N.S. Abraham is the recipient of a Canadian Association of Gastroenterology-Carsen Group-Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship in GI Endoscopic Research. Dr. AN Barkun, Dr. CA Fallone, and Dr. L Joseph are Research Scholars funded by the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec.

☆☆ The pilot study was funded in part by the American College of Gastroenterology and the Helen McCall Hutchison Foundation Fellowship.

★ Reprint requests: Alan N. Barkun, MD, Room D7.148, 1650 Cedar Ave., Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3G 1A4.

PII: S0016-5107(02)70175-2

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 180-189, August 2002

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