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- The endoscopic assessment of esophagitis: a progress report on observer agreement. (1996) (997)
- Anastomotic dehiscence after anterior resection of rectum and sigmoid (1970) (420)
- Retrospective study of 1000 deaths from injury in England and Wales (1988) (325)
- Local Complications of Ulcerative Colitis: Stricture, Pseudopolyposis, and Carcinoma of Colon and Rectum* (1966) (307)
- Computer aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain: a multicentre study. (1986) (302)
- Human and Computer-aided Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain: Further Report with Emphasis on Performance of Clinicians (1974) (294)
- Recurrence of Crohn's disease after primary excisional surgery (1971) (204)
- Five to eight-year results of Leeds-York controlled trial of elective surgery for duodenal ulcer. (1968) (174)
- Long‐term complications and prognosis following major surgery for ulcerative colitis (1966) (162)
- Factors affecting recurrence after surgery for Crohn's disease. (1988) (148)
- Short-term course and prognosis of Crohn's disease (1974) (141)
- IOIBD report no 1: Observer variation in calculating indices of severity and activity in Crohn's disease. International Organisation for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. (1987) (128)
- Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain using “Estimates” Provided by Clinicians (1972) (126)
- Prognostic factors in upper G.I. bleeding. (1986) (121)
- The O.M.G.E. Multinational Inflammatory Bowel Disease Survey 1976-1982. A further report on 2,657 cases. (1984) (119)
- Ocular disorders in a series of 332 patients with Crohn's disease. (1974) (117)
- Aids to the diagnosis of acute appendicitis (1989) (115)
- The early and late results of surgical treatment for Crohn's disease (1971) (114)
- Surgical Treatment of Severe Attacks of Ulcerative Colitis, with Special Reference to the Advantages of Early Operation (1970) (110)
- Long-term Prognosis of Ulcerative Colitis* (1966) (98)
- Clinical findings, early endoscopy, and multivariate analysis in patients bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract. (1977) (96)
- Clinical Presentation of Acute Abdomen: Study of 600 Patients (1972) (93)
- A controlled clinical trial of three methods of closure of laparotomy wounds (1975) (92)
- Preparation of the intestine in patients undergoing major large‐bowel surgery, mainly for neoplasms of the colon and rectum (1971) (88)
- A controlled trial of inverting versus everting intestinal suture in clinical large‐bowel surgery (1970) (87)
- Early course of ulcerative colitis. (1966) (84)
- Computer-aided Diagnosis: Description of an Adaptable System, and Operational Experience with 2,034 Cases (1972) (79)
- Acute abdominal pain in patients over 50 years of age. (1988) (76)
- Can computer aided teaching packages improve clinical care in patients with acute abdominal pain? (1991) (72)
- Diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in the accident and emergency department (1977) (69)
- The OMGE acute abdominal pain survey. Progress report, 1986. (1988) (68)
- Reliability and Reproducibility of Clinical Findings In Low-Back Pain (1979) (67)
- The British Society of Gastroenterology early gastric cancer/dysplasia survey: an interim report. (1990) (63)
- The relative significance of preoperative oral antibiotics, mechanical bowel preparation, and preoperative peritoneal contamination in the avoidance of sepsis after radical surgery for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease of the large bowel (1971) (60)
- The hit and miss of ISS and TRISS. Yorkshire Trauma Audit Group. (1993) (57)
- Inflammatory bowel disease in the elderly patient. (1988) (56)
- [Diagnostic score for acute appendicitis]. (1995) (55)
- Clinical Diagnostic Process: An Analysis (1973) (51)
- The value of stretching the anal sphincters in the relief of post‐haemorrhoidectomy pain (1969) (50)
- Ocular complications of ulcerative colitis. (1967) (50)
- Ulcerative colitis and pregnancy. (1965) (49)
- Twelve years' experience of computer-aided diagnosis in a district general hospital. (1990) (49)
- Early results of surgery for ulcerative colitis (1966) (47)
- Presentation of cancer to hospital as ‘acute abdominal pain’ (1980) (47)
- A computer-assisted system for learning clinical diagnosis. (1969) (45)
- Clinical presentation of patients with "dyspepsia". Detailed symptomatic study of 360 patients. (1978) (43)
- The OMGE multinational inflammatory bowel disease survey 1976-1986. A further report on 3175 cases. (1988) (43)
- The natural history of inflammatory bowel disease: has there been a change in the last 20 years? (1988) (43)
- Early surgery in the management of severe ulcerative colitis. (1967) (41)
- Clinical comparison of vagotomy and pyloroplasty with other forms of elective surgery for duodenal ulcer. (1968) (40)
- Radiological signs of ulcerative colitis: assessment of their reliability by means of observer variation studies. (1968) (40)
- Observer Variation in Clinical Diagnosis - A Computer-Aided Assessment of its Magnitude and Importance in 552 Patients with Abdominal Pain (1973) (39)
- Diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease: an international multicentre scoring system. (1982) (38)
- Geographical Variation in Disease Presentation (1981) (38)
- Computer-aided Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain (1972) (38)
- Can preliminary screening of dyspeptic patients allow more effective use of investigational techniques? (1985) (37)
- Observer variation in assessment of results of surgery for peptic ulceration. (1976) (35)
- Validation of a self administered questionnaire to elicit gastrointestinal symptoms. (1985) (30)
- Clinical presentation of diseases of the large bowel. A detailed study of 642 patients. (1976) (30)
- Simplified computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. (1975) (26)
- Aetiology of ulcerative colitis. II. A new hypothesis. (1969) (25)
- Simulation of Clinical Diagnosis: A Comparative Study (1971) (24)
- Assessment of the results of surgery for varicose veins (1976) (24)
- Computer-aided diagnosis of lower gastrointestinal tract disorders. (1975) (23)
- Pattern-Recognition: A Comparison of the Performance of Clinicians and Non-Clinicians - with a Note on the Performance of a Computer-Based System (1972) (23)
- Acute abdominal pain in children. (1988) (22)
- Aetiology of ulcerative colitis. (1969) (22)
- Computers and the surgeon--a matter of decision. (1979) (21)
- Intraperitoneal Perforation of the Colon in Ulcerative Colitis [Abridged] (1965) (21)
- Transfer of computer-aided diagnosis of dyspepsia from one geographical area to another. (1976) (20)
- Reliability of Physical Signs in Patients with Severe Attacks of Ulcerative Colitis (1971) (20)
- Hepatic histological changes in ulcerative colitis. A series of 58 consecutive operative liver biopsies. (1966) (20)
- Prediction of Individual Patient Prognosis (1986) (20)
- Presentation and diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in Finland: a computer aided study. (1983) (20)
- Early diagnosis of ischaemic colitis. (1969) (19)
- Radiological appearances of ulcerative colitis: an evaluation of their clinical significance. (1968) (19)
- Crohn's disease, with special reference to surgical management. (1972) (19)
- Inflammatory bowel disease--an O.M.G.E. survey. (1979) (19)
- Production of Artificial “Case Histories” by using a Small Computer (1971) (17)
- Computer-aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. The British experience. (1984) (16)
- Assessment of the double contrast barium meal: method and application. (1978) (15)
- Computer-assisted Diagnosis of Dyspepsia — Report on Transferability of a System, with Emphasis on Early Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer (1977) (15)
- Concentrations of serotonin in plasma--a test for appendicitis? (1988) (14)
- Teaching surgical diagnosis with the aid of a computer (1969) (14)
- The Early Course and Prognosis of Ulcerative Colitis [Abridged] (1965) (14)
- Proceedings: Relative value of clinical findings, early endoscopy, and multivariate analysis in patients bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal tract. (1976) (14)
- Crohn's Disease and Pregnancy (1972) (13)
- Perforation of the intestine in inflammatory bowel disease. An OMGE survey. (1988) (13)
- Diagnosis of dyspepsia from data collected by a physician's assistant. (1975) (13)
- The diagnosis of acute abdominal pain with computer assistance: worldwide perspective. (1991) (12)
- Medical Diagnosis from a Clinician’s Point of View (1978) (12)
- Construction and Uses of a ‘Data-Base’ of Clinical Information concerning 600 Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain (1971) (12)
- Acute abdominal pain and appendicitis in north east Thailand. (1989) (11)
- Do the stigmata of recent haemorrhage have additional prognostic value in patients with bleeding duodenal ulcer? (1988) (11)
- Collecting, Communicating and Using Information: The Educational Issues (1992) (11)
- Local complications of ulcerative colitis. Stricture, pseudopolyps and cancer of the colon and rectum. (1967) (10)
- Computer-aided decision support in clinical medicine. (1989) (9)
- Histories obtained by two-stage questionnaire with automated transcript in specialist gynaecological practice. (1975) (9)
- Ulcerative colitis: definition, historical background, aetiology, diagnosis, naturel history and local complications. (1968) (9)
- Acute abdominal pain--an O.M.G.E. survey. (1979) (9)
- Computer‐aided diagnosis of lower abdominal pain in women (1977) (9)
- Use of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves to Evaluate Computer Confidence Threshold and Clinical Performance in the Diagnosis of Appendicitis (1978) (8)
- Hepatic Histological Changes in Ulcerative Colitis. (1966) (8)
- Presentation and diagnosis of patients with acute abdominal pain: comparisons between Leeds, U.K. and Akershus county, Norway. (1980) (8)
- Measuring surgical performance in acute abdominal pain: some reflections from international studies. (1997) (7)
- The value of stretching of anal sphincters in the relief of pain after haemorrhoidectomy. (1969) (7)
- Surgical diagnosis assisted by a computer (1973) (7)
- Can preliminary screening of dyspeptic patients allow more effective use of investigational techniques? (1985) (7)
- Serum proteins in ulcerative colitis: electrophoretic patterns in the inferior mesenteric artery and vein. (1967) (7)
- Ulcerative colitis. Epidemiology and aetiology, course and prognosis. (1971) (7)
- Computer-aided diagnosis of gastroenterologic diseases in Sherbrooke: preliminary report. (1976) (6)
- Ethical considerations concerning computers in medicine in the 1980s. (1987) (6)
- Use of a multinational survey to provide clinical guidelines for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in developing countries. (1988) (6)
- Communication between GPs and consultants. (1992) (5)
- Back to the future; or forward to the past? (1987) (5)
- Assigning Value to Clinical Information – A Major Limiting Factor in the Implementation of Decision-Support Systems (1996) (5)
- Analysis of symptoms in the acute abdomen. (1985) (5)
- Computer-aided decision support--glittering prospects, practical problems, and Pandora's box. (1990) (5)
- Transporting databanks of medical information from one location to another. (1983) (5)
- Digoxin: a computer-based diagnostic game. (1969) (4)
- Computer-aided decision support in acute abdominal pain, with special reference to the EC concerted action. (1990) (4)
- Quality assurance in gastroenterology: the Telegastro project. (1994) (4)
- Toxic dilatation and perforation in inflammatory bowel disease. (1982) (4)
- Prognostic value of estimating serum proteins in cases of ulcerative colitis in remission. (1969) (4)
- Results of surgery in Crohn's disease. (1971) (3)
- [Clinical and computer-assisted diagnosis of 233 patients with acute abdomen]. (1983) (3)
- Proceedings: human and computer-aided diagnosis of "dyspepsia". (1973) (3)
- Malignant change in ulcerative colitis. (1966) (3)
- Epidemiology and natural history of Crohn's disease. (1971) (3)
- The computer as an aid to gastroenterological decision-making. (1975) (3)
- Organization of data input--the importance of rapid/high quality data collection. (1992) (3)
- Computer-aided decision support--the obstacles to progress. (1987) (3)
- A comparison of barium sulphate preparations used for the double contrast barium meal. (1982) (2)
- Observer variation in clinical diagnosis: its magnitude and importance in patients with acute abdominal pain. (1973) (2)
- The Management of Ulcerative Colitis (1968) (2)
- Computer based assistance for medical decision making. (1984) (2)
- Colonic lavage prior to barium enema--a comparison of two techniques. (1978) (2)
- The prognostic value of the serum proteins in ulcerative colitis (1967) (2)
- Computer-aided diagnosis of 233 acute abdominal cases at Nacka Hospital Sweden. (1987) (2)
- Picking the Best Tests in Acute Abdominal Pain (1979) (2)
- Computer-aided Diagnosis and Medical Decision Support are not Synonymous (1995) (2)
- Computer aided teaching packages. (1991) (1)
- Acute abdominal pain in the elderly. (1994) (1)
- Letters from hospitals to general practitioners (1984) (1)
- On the value of clinical information. Is there a bridge between quantum theory and medical diagnosis? (1996) (1)
- Observations on Severity and Activity Indices in a Therapeutic Trial of Active Crohn's Disease (1995) (1)
- Proceedings: Computer-aided diagnosis of dyspepsia: a prospective series with emphasis upon comparison with endoscopic findings. (1975) (1)
- Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm presenting as ureteric colic. (1987) (1)
- The results of surgical treatment for Crohn's disease (1972) (1)
- Some observations of the procedures used in medical diagnosis in real-life situations and under artificial simulated conditions. (1973) (1)
- Computer-Aided Decision Support: In Praise of Level Playing Fields (1994) (1)
- Comment and reply. A study of diagnostic accuracy in suspected acute appendicitis. (1989) (1)
- Computer-assisted diagnosis of abdominal pain using estimates provided by clinicians. (1972) (1)
- Computer support for medical decision-making. (1988) (1)
- Computer-assisted diagnosis in Europe. (1994) (1)
- The O.M.G.E. Acute Abdominal Pain Survey--progress report, 1982. (1984) (1)
- Ulcerative colitis and rectal carcinoma. (1971) (1)
- Malignant Change in Ulcerative Colitis [Abridged] (1966) (1)
- Epidemiology of Crohn's disease of the colon. (1985) (1)
- Carcinoma of the rectum and colon. A continuing challenge. (1969) (1)
- Proceedings: human and computer-aided diagnosis of lower gastro-intestinal disorders in 468 patients. (1973) (1)
- [Diagnosis and indication for surgery in acute appendicitis: how many "errors" are avoidable?]. (1979) (1)
- Computer Projects in Health Care (1976) (0)
- The role of the surgeon in the management of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. (1971) (0)
- A Question of Quality? (1976) (0)
- The relative importance of antibiotics, mechanical preparation of the bowel, and surgical technique in radical surgery for ulcerative colitis. (1969) (0)
- Towards objective medical decisions with the aid of knowledge based systems. (1993) (0)
- Educational assessment of clinical diagnostic skills: studies across Europe on acute abdominal pain. (1993) (0)
- Longer Space Voyages (1969) (0)
- Recurrent Crohn's disease. (1974) (0)
- Recommended literature and advanced courses for subspeciality education and training. (1989) (0)
- Research as a part of education. (1989) (0)
- Clinical decision-making: can we improve and how? A critical look at some of the issues. (1985) (0)
- Endoscopists, computers and the man on the Micklefield train. (1988) (0)
- The O.M.G.E. multi-national survey of upper gastro-intestinal bleeding. Some observations and corollaries. World Organization of Gastroenterology Research Committee. (1987) (0)
- [The realization of clinical research (including controlled studies) in regional hospitals]. (1979) (0)
- Human Congenital Malformations (1975) (0)
- Classifying inflammatory bowel disease. (1983) (0)
- Spring Books: Number fun (1987) (0)
- Large-bowel cancer after previous surgery. (1972) (0)
- Diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. What the computer teaches us. (1980) (0)
- Aetiology of appendicitis. (1979) (0)
- Background and current state-of-the-art. (1993) (0)
- Computer aided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain (1987) (0)
- Early surgery for severe ulcerative colitis. (1971) (0)
- Computer-unaided diagnosis of acute abdominal pain in an accident and emergency department. (1989) (0)
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS (1972) (0)
- Prognosis and proctocolectomy. (1974) (0)
- The controlled, randomised clinical trial -- sacred duty or sacred cow? (1980) (0)
- Clinical evaluation of acid‐related disease (1990) (0)
- Regional information systems (1994) (0)
- Computer-Aided Diagnosis and Decision-Making in the Acute Abdomen (1975) (0)
- Letter from Lisbon (1985) (0)
- Proceedings: Observer variation in the assessment of results of surgery for peptic ulceration. (1974) (0)
- Medical Diagnosis from a Clinician’s Point of View (1978) (0)
- Ulcerative and Crohn's colitis (1984) (0)
- Examinations in Medicine (1976) (0)
- Letter From Leeds (1981) (0)
- Computers, diagnoses and patients with acute abdominal pain. (1992) (0)
- Prognostic value of the serum proteins during severe attacks of ulcerative colitis. (1968) (0)
- Non-specific abdominal pain: the resource implications: Assessor's comment. (1992) (0)
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