Patients with new onset haematuria: Assessing the discriminant value of clinical information in relation to urological malignancies

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 52, Issue 477, 2002, Pages 284-289

  Summerton, Nicholas ^a   Mann, Sara ^a   Rigby, Alan S ^a   Ashley, Julie ^a   Palmer, Sarah ^a   Hetherington, John W ^a  

^a Winterton Medical Practice   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diagnosis; Haematuria; Urology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DECISION MAKING; ENGLAND; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036526657     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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