What general practitioners know about irritable bowel syndrome. Preliminary data from a Romanian province

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 227-230

  Dumitrascu, Dan L ^a   David, Liliana ^a   Singer, Manfred ^b  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Family medicine; General practice; Irritable bowel syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PREVALENCE; ROMANIA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; ROMANIA;

EID: 33749236085     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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