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 patie...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2009-05-01
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| Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0015n3qt |