A little math helps the medicine go down

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 435-439

  Kopelman, Richard I ^b   Wong, John B ^b   Pauker, Stephen G ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CASE REPORT; FATIGUE; FEVER; HUMAN; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; BLOOD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATIGUE; FEVER; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; LUNG; MALE; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PREDNISONE; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0033526963     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199908053410608     Document Type: Article

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