Missing celiac disease in family medicine: The importance of hypothesis generation

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 282-290

  Kostopoulou, Olga ^a   Devereaux Walsh, Charlotte ^b   Delaney, Brendan C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Celiac disease; Diagnosis; Error; Family medicine; Hypothesis generation; Information interpretation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFECATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IRRITABLE COLON; MEDICAL INFORMATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; GENERAL PRACTICE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CELIAC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS;

EID: 67649222359     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X08327493     Document Type: Article

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