Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the UK: Patient characteristics, diagnoses and outcomes in the 2007 UK audit

Gut

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1327-1335

  Hearnshaw, Sarah A ^a   Logan, Richard F A ^b   Lowe, Derek ^c   Travis, Simon P L ^d   Murphy, Mike F ^e   Palmer, Kelvin R ^f  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052599858     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2010.228437     Document Type: Article

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