Response to "U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation and Pediatric Hypertension Screening: Dereliction of Duty or Call to Arms?"

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 344-345

  Falkner, Bonita ^a   Flynn, Joseph ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN SCREENING; POPULATION RISK; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84900436880     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jch.12295     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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