Effects of continuity of care in infancy on receipt of lead, anemia, and tuberculosis screening

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Flores, Ana I ^a   Bilker, Warren B ^a   Alessandrini, Evaline A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuity of cate; Early childhood; Medicaid; Screening; Urban

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MEDICAID; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; MASS SCREENING; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ANEMIA; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEAD POISONING; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAID; ODDS RATIO; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 40949111959     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-1497     Document Type: Article

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