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SUBMITTER: Park JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4838852 | biostudies-other | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lamba Mehul M Alamri Yassar Y Garg Paras P Frampton Chris C Rowbotham David D Gearry Richard R
The New Zealand medical journal 20190607 1496
<h4>Aims</h4>Outpatient endoscopy non-attendance leads to diagnostic delay and increasing wait times. We aimed to analyse endoscopy non-attendance rates and factors associated with it at the Canterbury and Auckland District Health Boards during a five-year period.<h4>Methods</h4>Consecutive appointments between April 2012 and March 2017 were assessed. The following procedures were included: gastroscopy, colonoscopy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Predictors of non-attendance ...[more]