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- Title
Management of severe acute colitis in district hospitals.
- Authors
Ritchie, Jean K.; McIntyre, P. B.; Marks, C. G.
- Abstract
Among 10 hospitals of the North East Thames Region, 84 patients were operated on for inflammatory bowel disease in the years 1977—81. There was one death in the 51 patients treated electively. The postoperative mortality was 24% in 33 patients coming to urgent surgery. The factors leading to this continuing high mortality are analysed as a contribution to an improvement in management.
- Subjects
INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases; COLITIS; SURGERY; MORTALITY; DIAGNOSIS; INTESTINAL diseases
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1984, Vol 77, Issue 6, p465
- ISSN
0141-0768
- Publication type
Article