Diagnosis and treatment of iron deficiency in medical inpatients at a Swiss tertiary university referral hospital: A retrospective observational cohort study of clinical practice

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 143, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hug, Balthasar L ^a   Tichelli, André ^a   Benkert, Pascal ^a   Stirnimann, Guido ^a   Schifferli, Juerg A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anaemia; In hospital; Internal medicine; Iron deficiency; Iron supplementation; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRIC CARBOXYMALTOSE; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HEPARIN; PHENPROCOUMON; TRANSFERRIN; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR; IRON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; ICD-10; INFLAMMATION; INJURY; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTOXICATION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITOSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSFERRIN BLOOD LEVEL; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84885156066     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: 14243997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2013.13847     Document Type: Article

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