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Providing colonoscopy services for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Finlay A Macrae
Med J Aust 2007; 186 (6): 280-281.

There are many ways of freeing up and making maximal use of existing colonoscopy resources

Finlay A Macrae, MB BS, MD, FRACP, Head, Colorectal Medicine and Genetics
Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
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