The preferences of adult outpatients in medical or dental care settings for giving saliva, urine or blood for clinical testing

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 735-740

  Koka, Sreenivas ^a,b   Beebe, Timothy J ^a,b   Merry, Stephen P ^b   BeJesus, Ramona S ^b   Berlanga, Lorenzo B ^b   Weaver, Amy L ^b   Montori, Victor M ^b   Wong, David T ^a,c  

^a Department of Dentistry ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; Diagnosis; Health care utilization; Saliva

Indexed keywords

EID: 46649089336     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2008.0255     Document Type: Article

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