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Referral of patients with iron deficiency anaemia under the lower gastrointestinal two-week wait rule
- Source :
- Colorectal Disease. 10:294-297
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2008.
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Abstract
- Objective One of the 2-week wait (2WW) criteria for suspected lower gastrointestinal cancer states that patients should be referred who have iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) without obvious cause [Haemoglobin (Hb)
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Waiting Lists
Referral
Colorectal cancer
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Unnecessary Procedures
Risk Assessment
Severity of Illness Index
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
Cohort Studies
Age Distribution
Severity of illness
medicine
Humans
Registries
Gastrointestinal cancer
Sex Distribution
Referral and Consultation
Aged
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Aged, 80 and over
Anemia, Iron-Deficiency
business.industry
Incidence
Incidence (epidemiology)
Gastroenterology
Cancer
Iron deficiency
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
United Kingdom
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Female
business
Follow-Up Studies
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14631318 and 14628910
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Colorectal Disease
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....220f24c7d179b1bff05c0fcd57c8e7b1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-1318.2007.01364.x