Anaemia investigation in practice: Inappropriate, cost inefficient with a risk of missing gastrointestinal cancer. Can we improve?

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-118

  Mankodi, Sheena ^a   Hayee, Bu Hussain ^a   O'Donohue, John ^a   Reffitt, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Cost effectiveness; Investigation; Iron deficiency; Validation

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 77950566103     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.10-2-115     Document Type: Article

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