Mortality in patients with and without colectomy admitted to hospital for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease: Record linkage studies

British Medical Journal

Volumn 335, Issue 7628, 2007, Pages 1033-1036

  Roberts, Stephen E ^a   Williams, John G ^a   Yeates, David ^b   Goldacre, Michael J ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FATALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENGLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 36348969461     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39345.714039.55     Document Type: Article

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