The importance of process issues as predictors of time to endoscopy in patients with acute upper-GI bleeding using the RUGBE data

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 299-309

  da Silveira, Eduardo B ^a   Lam, Eric ^a   Martel, Myriam ^a   Bensoussan, Karen ^a   Barkun, Alan N ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DYSPNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; THORAX PAIN; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

EID: 33747414466     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.11.051     Document Type: Article

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