Prioritisation of patients with rectal bleeding for urgent outpatient colonoscopy - A pilot study

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1258, 2007, Pages

  Bhargava, Akanksha ^a   Aldameh, Ali ^a   Stewart, Joanna ^a   Hill, Andrew G ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER RISK; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSULTATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 35848934167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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