Frequency and incidence of venous thromboembolism in a general hospital;Frecuencia e incidencia de la tromboembolia venosa en un hospital general

Medicina

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 289-294

  Mazzei, Juan A ^a   Campos, Ana L ^a   Melero, Marcelo J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Deep vein thrombosis; Frequency; Incidence; Pulmonary embolism; Venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGENTINA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 25844511775     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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