Screening by specialists to reduce unnecessary test ordering in patients evaluated for tuberculosis

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 681-684

  Divinagracia, Ruth M ^a   Harkin, Timothy J ^a   Bonk, Stanley ^a   Schluger, Neil W ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031688887     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.3.681     Document Type: Article

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