A pragmatic symptom-based approach

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 765-773

  Kuo, Paul ^a   Holloway, Richard H ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Gastro oesophageal reflux; Questionnaires; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ASTHMA; COUGHING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ESOPHAGITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEARTBURN; HEMATEMESIS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LARYNGITIS; NONCARDIAC CHEST PAIN; ODYNOPHAGIA; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; REVIEW; STOMACH MUCOSA INJURY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM; TOOTH DISEASE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 78649729997     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2010.10.001     Document Type: Article

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