Colonoscopy first for iron-deficiency anaemia: A Numbers Needed to Investigate approach

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 389-395

  Stephens, M R ^a   Hopper, A N ^a   White, S R ^a   Jugool, S ^a   Stratford, R ^a   Lewis, W G ^a   Allison, Miles C ^a  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 33745635334     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcl053     Document Type: Review

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