Audit of Investigations in Patients with Iron Deficiency Anaemia

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 504-510

  Luman, Widjaja ^a   Ng, K L ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Gastroscopy; Iron deficiency anaemia

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FERRITIN; IRON; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; GASTROSCOPY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMORRHOID; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE POLYP; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MENORRHAGIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEPTIC ULCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREMENOPAUSE; SINGAPORE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; SINGAPORE;

EID: 2442475983     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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