Editorial: When inexpensive tests have expensive outcomes: Faecal occult blood tests as an example

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 91-93

  Duggan, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ANEMIA; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DIET RESTRICTION; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECONOMICS; OCCULT BLOOD;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; OCCULT BLOOD;

EID: 77749252834     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2010.02170.x     Document Type: Editorial

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