Diverticular disease hospital admissions are increasing, with poor outcomes in the elderly and emergency admissions

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1171-1182

  Jeyarajah, S ^a   Faiz, O ^b   Bottle, A ^b   Aylin, P ^b   Bjarnason, I ^a   Tekkis, P P ^b   Papagrigoriadis, S ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT READMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350784044     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2009.04098.x     Document Type: Article

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