Contrasting effects of comorbidities on emergency colon cancer diagnosis: a longitudinal data-linkage study in England

Background One in three colon cancers are diagnosed as an emergency, which is associated with worse cancer outcomes. Chronic conditions (comorbidities) affect large proportions of adults and they might influence the risk of emergency presentations (EP). Methods We aimed to evaluate the effect of spe...

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Veröffentlicht in:	BMC health services research Jg. 19; H. 1; S. 311 - 14
Hauptverfasser:	Renzi, Cristina, Lyratzopoulos, Georgios, Hamilton, Willie, Maringe, Camille, Rachet, Bernard
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	London BioMed Central 15.05.2019 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Schlagworte:	Abdomen Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Cancer diagnosis Cancer patients Cancer research Chronic conditions Chronic illnesses Clinical medicine Colon cancer Colonic Neoplasms - diagnosis Colonic Neoplasms - epidemiology Colorectal cancer Comorbid patients Comorbidity Constipation Diagnosis Emergencies Emergency presentations England - epidemiology Gender differences Gynecology Health Administration Health aspects Health Informatics Health services Hemoglobin Hospitalization Hospitals Humans Hypertension Information Storage and Retrieval Irritable bowel syndrome Longitudinal Studies Lung diseases Male Medical diagnosis Medical research Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Nursing Research Patients Population Primary care Primary Health Care - statistics & numerical data Public Health Quality Reasoning Registries Research Article Respiratory tract diseases Risk Factors safety and outcomes Secondary Care - statistics & numerical data Sociodemographics Symptoms Variables Womens health England United Kingdom > UK Chronic conditions Colon cancer Diagnosis Emergency presentations Comorbidity Symptoms
ISSN:	1472-6963, 1472-6963
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