Utility, charge, and cost of inpatient and emergency department serum folate testing

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 91-95

  Theisen Toupal, Jesse ^a   Horowitz, Gary L ^a   Breu, Anthony C ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETHARGY; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEGALOCYTOSIS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PARANOIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84873425762     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.1994     Document Type: Article

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