Bowel preparation at home in elderly people

BMJ

Volumn 314, Issue 7073, 1997, Pages 74-

  Lewis, M ^a   Rugg Gunn, F ^a   Don, C ^a   Woods, W ^a   Hanning, C D ^b  

^a WORTHING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE; PICOLINE DERIVATIVE; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM ION;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMA; DRINKING; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LAVAGE; NOTE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FLUID INTAKE; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTESTINE PREPARATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHARTICS; COMA; DRINKING; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; PICOLINES;

EID: 0031023723     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.314.7073.74     Document Type: Letter

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