TitleMedicare coverage of routine screening for thyroid dysfunction [electronic resource] / Marc B. Stone and Robert B. Wallace, editors ; Committee on Medicare Coverage of Routine Thyroid Screening, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Imprint Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003
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Descript xiv, 121 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

1. Introduction -- 2. Pathophysiology and diagnosis of thyroid disease -- 3. Prevelance and consequences of thyroid dysfunction -- 4. Screening for thyroid dysfuntion -- 5. The cost of coverage -- 6. Conclusions and recommendations


SUBJECT

  1. Thyroid gland -- Diseases
  2. Medical screening -- United States
  3. Medical screening -- United States
  4. Medicare
  5. Thyroid Diseases -- prevention & control -- United States
  6. Mass Screening -- economics -- United States
  7. Medicare -- economics
  8. Preventive Health Services -- economics -- United States
  9. Electronic books.