Simple is beautiful: The neglected power of simple tests

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 2198-2200

  Schattner, Ami ^a,b  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GALLIUM 67; PREDNISONE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MEDLINE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NEUTROPENIA; NOTE; PAIN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SCHIRMER TEST; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; COLITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 7544236618     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.164.20.2198     Document Type: Note

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