Alarm symptoms in early diagnosis of cancer in primary care: Cohort study using General Practice Research Database

British Medical Journal

Volumn 334, Issue 7602, 2007, Pages 1040-1044

  Jones, Roger ^a   Latinovic, Radoslav ^a   Charlton, Judith ^a   Gulliford, Martin C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEMATURIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 34249281687     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39171.637106.AE     Document Type: Article

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