Urgent endoscopy: Does it matter if they don't listen to us?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-95

  Lee, John G ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3042587409     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(04)01533-0     Document Type: Editorial

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