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Patient-reported and doctor-reported symptoms when faecal immunochemical tests are requested in primary care in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease: a prospective study

BACKGROUND: Rectal bleeding and a change in bowel habits are considered to be alarm symptoms for colorectal cancer and they are also common symptoms for inflammatory bowel disease. However, most patients with these symptoms do not have any of these diseases. Faecal immunochemical tests (FITs) for ha...

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Autores principales: Högberg, Cecilia, Karling, Pontus, Rutegård, Jörgen, Lilja, Mikael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32611307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01194-x