Missed opportunities to initiate endoscopic evaluation for colorectal cancer diagnosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2543-2554

  Singh, Hardeep ^a   Daci, Kuang ^a   Petersen, Laura A ^a   Collins, Clyde ^a   Petersen, Nancy J ^a   Shethia, Anila ^a   El Serag, Hashem B ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEXAS;

EID: 70350510117     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.324     Document Type: Article

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