Patients referred from primary care with iron-deficiency anaemia: Analysis of a nurse-led service. An improvement for both doctor and patient?

Quality in Primary Care

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-135

  Davis, Andrew J M ^a   Bowman, Dru ^a   Shepherd, Hugh A ^a  

^a ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Colonic neoplasm; Iron deficiency; Nurse practitioner

Indexed keywords

IRON; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; CROHN DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEMORRHAGIC GASTRITIS; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSING; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEPTIC ULCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 3543114545     PISSN: 14791072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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