Digestive Health Associates

and the Southwest Endoscopy Center

Doctor's Electronic Desk


These are professionally-oriented links primarily for the use of our medical staff.


Search Engines


Search PubMed:   

PubMed Logo
Epocrates Online



Health Related Organizations and Other Sites of Interest




Web Portals to GI Informational Sites

The following portals require passwords for access:

American Journal of Gastroenterology
Gastro Journals

-Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
-Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
-Gastroenterology
Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Online (Sleisinger & Fordtran's)
Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The Clinics e-access




Clinical Guidelines and Resources

Guidelines are intended to be an educational device to provide information that may assist us in providing care to patients. Guidelines are not rules and should not be construed as establishing a legal standard of care or as encouraging, advocating, requiring, or discouraging any particular treatment. Clinical decisions in any particular case involve a complex analysis of the patient’s condition and available courses of action.  Therefore, clinical considerations may lead a physician to take a course of action that varies from guidelines.





Package Inserts



Recent Health Care Notification Network Alerts

Fluoroquinolone antibiotics | Avelox (moxifloxacin), Cipro (ciprofloxacin) | October 22, 2008
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics |
Levaquin (levofloxacin) | November 6, 2008



Private Web Resources
Access to these sites is password protected.

Calendar for Digestive Health
Google Docs for Digestive Health
Google Sites for Digestive Health | Endoscopy Resources
ProNet Prometheus Results Online
Start page at Google
Webmail for Digestive Health
Mercy Regional Medical Center Access 
    Library Access Codes


Healthcare Information Technology Resources

Digestive Health Clinical IT Systems
NextGen

News Sources
Healthcare IT News


Health Policy Resources

Health Policy Brief: Paying Physicians for Medicare Services from Health Affairs, June 25, 2010


Recent Presentations by Digestive Health Physicians

Endoscopist-Directed Propofol:  Practical Considerations
Patrick D. Gerstenberger, MD, FASGE
Digestive Disease Week Symposium:  Endoscopic Sedation
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
May 4, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana

Economics of Sedation Administration
Patrick D. Gerstenberger, MD, AGAF
Sedation Competencies for the Endoscopy Team
American Gastroenterological Association
January 17, 2010
Las Vegas, Nevada