Exploring the agreement between diagnostic criteria for IBS in primary care in Greece

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Anastasiou, Foteini ^a   Mouzas, Ioannis A ^b   Moschandreas, Joanna ^a   Kouroumalis, Elias ^b   Lionis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

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EID: 74949103214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-1-127     Document Type: Article

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