The German colonoscopy screening program: the quality of a quality register

Endoscopy 2013; 45(10): 819-820
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1344789

Editorial

Geir Hoff

Dept. of Medicine, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway

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