Repeated upper endoscopy in the medicare population: A retrospective analysis

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 154-160

  Pohl, Heiko ^a   Robertson, Douglas ^a   Welch, H Gilbert ^a  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUODENITIS; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULCER; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; ICD-9-CM;

ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893839988     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M13-0046     Document Type: Article

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