Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: A Jamaican perspective

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 289-292

  Kaliamurthy, M ^a   Lee, M G ^a   Mills, M ^a   Murphy, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Gastrointestinal

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DUODENUM ULCER; EROSIVE GASTRITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELENA; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; RETCHING; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED;

ACCESSORY ATRIOVENTRICULAR BUNDLE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS;

EID: 84862916042     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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