‘Do no harm’: an intuitive decision tool to assess the need for gastrointestinal endoscopy

Amnon Sonnenberg; Heiko Pohl

doi:10.1055/a-0826-4432

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2019; 07(03): E384-E388
DOI: 10.1055/a-0826-4432

Editorial

‘Do no harm’: an intuitive decision tool to assess the need for gastrointestinal endoscopy

Amnon Sonnenberg^*

¹Gastroenterology Section, Portland VA Medical Center

²Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States

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Heiko Pohl^*

³Gastroenterology Section, VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, United States

⁴Division of Gastroenterology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

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