Gastroenterology in practice

Tuberculosis In Gastroenterology Practice: Clinical Challenges

Tuberculosis can involve any part of the gastrointestinal tract and is the sixth most frequent site of extrapulmonary involvement 1. Both the incidence and severity of extrapulmonary tuberculosis are expected to increase with increasing incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection 2. Tuberculosis that is encountered in Gastroenterology practice denotes involvement of the gastrointe...

Access to specialist gastroenterology care in Canada: the Practice Audit in Gastroenterology (PAGE) Wait Times Program.

BACKGROUND Canadian wait time data are available for the treatment of cancer and heart disease, as well as for joint replacement, cataract surgery and diagnostic imaging procedures. Wait times for gastroenterology consultation and procedures have not been studied, although digestive diseases pose a greater economic burden in Canada than cancer or heart disease. METHODS Specialist physicians c...

Primary care research and clinical practice: gastroenterology.

Gastrointestinal problems account for a significant proportion of general practitioners' workload, and gastrointestinal cancers, taken together, make up the largest group of malignancies. Approximately 10% of consultations in general practice in the UK are for gastrointestinal symptoms or problems, split roughly equally between the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Gastroenterology repres...

Medical-surgical collaboration in the practice of gastroenterology.

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Practice Guidelines: evaluation of dysphagia.

DEFINITION Dysphagia may be defined as difficulty in swallowing. Dysphagia may be classified as oropharyngeal or esophageal; oropharyngeal dysphagia arises from a structural or functional abnormality in the oropharynx, and esophageal dysphagia occurs as a result of structural or functional abnormalities in the esophagus. Esophageal dysphagia may be further subclassified symptomatically as dysph...