Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 7 , Pages 477-481 , July 2010

Trends in acute non-variceal bleeding in Israel in 1996–2007: A significant decrease in the rates of bleeding peptic ulcers

  • Tiberiu Hershcovici

      Affiliations

    • Gastroenterology Unit, Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 2 6776851; fax: +972 2 6437492.
    • ,
  • Ziona Haklai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Information, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • Ethel-Sherry Gordon

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Information, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ,
  • Joseph Zimmerman

      Affiliations

    • Gastroenterology Unit, Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel

Received 16 May 2009 ,Accepted 4 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.11.001

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 7 , Pages 477-481 , July 2010

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