Lead Exposure: Inappropriate Screening Practices?

J Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-8-8-7

Lead Exposure: Inappropriate Screening Practices?

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 8 (1994): Issue 8

By: J Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Aug 1994

Abstract

Physician screening practices at a hospital-based, university-affiliated pediatric primary care center serving an urban high-risk population in Rochester, NY were evaluated to determine the feasibility of the 1991 Centers for Disease Control guidelines.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-8-8-7 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 60 - 62

Published on: Aug 1, 1994

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Lead Toxic Effects,

Blood Lead Levels,

Venipuncture

© 1994 J Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 8 (1994): Issue 8