Case report: Profound anemia: Chronic disease detection and global health disparities

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 52, Issue MAR., 2006, Pages 335-336

  Pottie, Kevin ^a,b,c,d   Topp, Patricia ^c   Kilbertus, Frances ^b,c  

^a Institute of Population Health   (Canada)

^b Department of Family Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d Centre for Family Medicine Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENSTRUATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REFUGEE; CANADA; ETHNOLOGY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MASS SCREENING; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; REFUGEES; SYRIA;

EID: 33645942078     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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