Impact of the Rome II paediatric criteria on the appropriateness of the upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy in children

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 582-590

  Miele, E ^a   Giannetti, E ^a   Martinelli, M ^a   Tramontano, A ^a   Greco, L ^a   Staiano, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALGRANULIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD CARE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DYSPHAGIA; EOSINOPHILIC COLITIS; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROME II CRITERIA; STOMACH POLYP; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77954739758     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04383.x     Document Type: Article

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