Complete Blood Count or Complete Blood Count with Differential: What's the Difference?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 915-916

  Agrawal, Deepak ^a   Sarode, Ravi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CELL COUNT; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; MICROSCOPY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NOTE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REIMBURSEMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; PROCEDURES;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; HUMANS;

EID: 85019578047     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.03.049     Document Type: Note

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