Screening healthy infants for iron deficiency using reticulocyte hemoglobin content

JAMA

Volumn 294, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 924-930

  Ullrich, Christina ^a,b   Wu, Ann ^a,c   Armsby, Carrie ^a   Rieber, Sarah ^a   Wingerter, Sarah ^a   Brugnara, Carlo ^a   Shapiro, David ^d   Bernstein, Henry ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; FERRITIN; IRON;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETICULOCYTE; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; IRON; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETICULOCYTES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23944517802     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.294.8.924     Document Type: Article

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