Name
Title | ||
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Emergency department utilization can indicate early diagnosis of digestive tract cancers: A population-based study in Taiwan. |
Abstract | ||
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•It is the first population-based study to identify patients whose ED visits prior to diagnosis of digestive tract cancer.•Certain examinations and blood transfusion in ED from 4 to 15 months prior to diagnosis was the significant predictors.•We proposed a screening method of potential patients with digestive tract cancer by clinical decision support system in ED.•Implementation of informatics system in ED can provide an opportunity for early detection of occult digestive tract cancer. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1016/j.cmpb.2014.04.002 | Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Cancer,Diagnosis,Emergency department,Predictor | Blood test,Population,Emergency medicine,Case-control study,Emergency department,Internal medicine,Blood transfusion,Odds ratio,Statistics,Cohort study,Cohort,Medicine | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
115 | 3 | 0169-2607 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.36 | 5 |
Authors | ||
9 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Lam | 1 | 2 | 0.72 |
| Ching-Feng Kuan | 2 | 5 | 1.32 |
| James Miser | 3 | 2 | 0.72 |
| Kun-Yi Hsieh | 4 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Yu-Ann Fang | 5 | 2 | 0.72 |
| Yu-Chuan Li | 6 | 209 | 34.88 |
| Chin-Wang Hsu | 7 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Ray-Jade Chen | 8 | 37 | 3.21 |
| Chang-I Chen | 9 | 5 | 1.32 |