Facilitating clinical trials of anemia in older adults: A point-of-care system to measure hemoglobin in the home and its agreement with a hospital core laboratory

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2362-2364

  Teruya, Sergio L ^a   Gil, Helen R ^a   Teresi, Jeanne A ^b,c,d   Kong, Jian ^c   Eimicke, Joseph ^c   Helmke, Stephen ^a   Maurer, Mathew S ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Research Division   (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOME DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 71549152598     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02582.x     Document Type: Letter

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