An evidence-based approach to the management of uninvestigated dyspepsia in the era of Helicobacter pylori. Canadian Dyspepsia Working Group.

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Published in CMAJ on June 13, 2000

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S J Veldhuyzen van Zanten1, N Flook, N Chiba, D Armstrong, A Barkun, M Bradette, A Thomson, F Bursey, P Blackshaw, D Frail, P Sinclair

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1: Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. sue.moore@dal.ca

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