Risk assessment in upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage: Implications for resource utilisation

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1115, 2000, Pages 331-333

  Phang, Tony S M ^a   Vornik, Vadim ^a   Stubbs, Richard ^a,b  

^a Wakefield Hospital   (New Zealand)

^b Wakefield Gastroenterology Research Institute   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0034636941     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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