Weight loss as a predictor of cancer and serious disease in primary care: an ISAC-approved CPRD protocol for a retrospective cohort study using routinely collected primary care data from the UK

BACKGROUND: Unexpected weight loss is a symptom of serious disease in primary care, for example between 1 in 200 and 1 in 30 patients with unexpected weight loss go on to develop cancer. However, it remains unclear how and when general practitioners (GPs) should investigate unexpected weight loss. W...

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Vydáno v:Diagn Progn Res
Hlavní autoři: Nicholson, B. D., Aveyard, P., Hobbs, F. D. R., Smith, M., Fuller, A., Perera, R., Hamilton, W., Stevens, S., Bankhead, C. R.
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: BioMed Central 2018
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6460783/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31093551
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41512-017-0019-9
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