Screening for gastrointestinal malignancy in patients with iron deficiency anemia by general practitioners: An observational study

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1105-1110

  Droogendijk, Jolanda ^a   Beukers, Ruud ^b   Berendes, Paul B ^b   Tax, Martine G H M ^b   Sonneveld, Pieter ^a   Levin, Mark David ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal malignancy; General practitioner; Iron deficiency anemia

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLONOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DUODENITIS; DUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CARCINOMA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DUODENITIS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051745476     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2011.594082     Document Type: Article

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