Epidemiology and outcome of patients hospitalized with acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage: A population-based study

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 419-424

  Longstreth, George F ^a,b  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COLITIS; COLON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031038286     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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