Outpatient management for low-risk nonvariceal upper GI bleeding: A randomized controlled trial

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-5

  Cipolletta, Livio ^a,b   Bianco, Maria Antonia ^a,b   Rotondano, Gianluca ^a,b   Marmo, Riccardo ^a,b   Piscopo, Roberto ^a,b  

^a Regione Campania and the Ospedale Maresca ^*  (Italy)

^b Regione Campania and the Ospedale Maresca   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; ACUTE DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; COST; ECONOMICS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMBULATORY CARE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0036134532     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2002.119219     Document Type: Article

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