A Canadian Clinical Practice Algorithm for the Management of Patients with Non-Variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Alan Barkun; Carlo A Fallone; Naoki Chiba; Marty Fishman; Nigel Flook; Janet Martin; Alaa Rostom; Anthony Taylor; for the Nonvariceal Upper GI Bleeding Consensus Conference Group

doi:10.1155/2004/595470

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology (Jan 2004)

A Canadian Clinical Practice Algorithm for the Management of Patients with Non-Variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Alan Barkun,
Carlo A Fallone,
Naoki Chiba,
Marty Fishman,
Nigel Flook,
Janet Martin,
Alaa Rostom,
Anthony Taylor,
for the Nonvariceal Upper GI Bleeding Consensus Conference Group

Affiliations

Alan Barkun: Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Carlo A Fallone: Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Naoki Chiba: Division of Gastroenterology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Marty Fishman: Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nigel Flook: Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Janet Martin: Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Alaa Rostom: Division of Gastroenterology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Anthony Taylor: Department of Emergency Medicine, Calgary Health Region, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
for the Nonvariceal Upper GI Bleeding Consensus Conference Group

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2004/595470
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 18, no. 10
pp. 605 – 609

Abstract

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AIM: To use current evidence-based recommendations to provide a user-friendly clinical algorithm for the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, adapted to the Canadian environment.

Published in Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

ISSN: 0835-7900 (Print); 1916-7237 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1720

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