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Study protocol: first nationwide comparative audit of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding in the UK.
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INTRODUCTION: Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is a common indication for emergency hospitalisation worldwide. In contrast to upper GIB, patient characteristics, modes of investigation, transfusion, treatment and outcomes are poorly described. There are minimal clinical guidelines to inform care pathways and the use of endoscopy, including (diagnostic and therapeutic yields), interventional radiology and surgery are poorly defined. As a result, there is potential for wide variatio...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011752
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Bowel Disease Research Foundation
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NHS Blood and
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Royal College of
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- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 8
- Article number:
- e011752
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-05
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- ISSN:
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2044-6055
- Source identifiers:
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637885
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- English
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pubs:637885
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-08-08
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- Oakland et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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