Missed Opportunities for Transcranial Doppler Screening among Children with Sickle Cell Disease

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1093-1099

  Reeves, Sarah L ^a,b   Fullerton, Heather J ^c   Cohn, Lisa M ^b   Dombkowski, Kevin J ^b   Boulton, Matthew L ^a   Braun, Thomas M ^a   Lisabeth, Lynda D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

children; health services research; Medicaid; newborn screening; pediatric stroke; sickle cell disease; stroke prevention; transcranial Doppler screening

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MICHIGAN; NEWBORN SCREENING; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL BETA THALASSEMIA; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN VEIN; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL VEINS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84987729767     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922815614351     Document Type: Article

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