Routine Laboratory Testing to Evaluate for Medical Illness in Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department Is Largely Unrevealing

OBJECTIVES: This is a prospective study of psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) to determine the value of routine laboratory studies used to attempt to exclude concomitant medical illness. METHODS: Physical exams and laboratory tests were performed on 375 psychiatric pati...

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Autores principales: Amin, Manish, Wang, Julia
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2009
Materias:
Emergency Department Operations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2691514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561828

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