Journal article
Prioritising primary care patients with unexpected weight loss for cancer investigation: Diagnostic accuracy study
- Abstract:
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Objective:
To quantify the predictive value of unexpected weight loss (WL) for cancer according to patient’s age, sex, smoking status, and concurrent clinical features (symptoms, signs, and abnormal blood test results).
Design:
Diagnostic accuracy study.
Setting:
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Clinical Practice Research Datalink electronic health records data linked to the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service in...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Journal website
- Volume:
- 370
- Article number:
- m2651
- Publication date:
- 2020-08-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-06-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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0959-8138
- ISSN:
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1759-2151
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1125350
- Local pid:
- pubs:1125350
- Deposit date:
- 2020-08-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Nicholson et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s) 2020. This article is Open Access under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial licence.
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