Low yield of outpatient serum folate testing: Eleven years of experience

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1696-1697

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

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; FOLIC ACID;

CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; REIMBURSEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERUM FOLATE TEST; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; LUMINESCENCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BOSTON; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; OUTPATIENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84908006425     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3593     Document Type: Letter

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