Predicting the outcome of nonvariceal upper GI bleeding: Can we guess right?

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 248-250

  De Franchis, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; PREDICTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITALIZATION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 3543050621     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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