Screening for decreased oxygenation during medical evaluations [4]

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 108-109

  Reeves, Roy R ^a   Ladner, Mark E ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGITATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EUPHORIA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INSOMNIA; LABORATORY TEST; LETHARGY; LETTER; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; OXYGENATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOSIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESTLESSNESS; SCREENING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 11844253228     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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