Trends in acute non-variceal bleeding in Israel in 1996-2007: A significant decrease in the rates of bleeding peptic ulcers

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 477-481

  Hershcovici, Tiberiu ^a   Haklai, Ziona ^b   Gordon, Ethel Sherry ^b   Zimmerman, Joseph ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute non variceal upper GI bleeding; Bleeding peptic ulcers; Hospital admissions; In hospital mortality rate; Incidence

Indexed keywords

ACUTE NON VARICEAL UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DUODENAL ULCER BLEEDING; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PEPTIC ULCER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ULCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; DUODENAL ULCER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH ULCER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955559636     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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