Vitamin D: too much testing and treating?
Henry J Woodford, Scott Barrett and Stewart Pattman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.18-3-196
Clin Med June 2018 Henry J Woodford
ANorth Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Shields, UK
Roles: consultant geriatrician
Scott Barrett
BNorth Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Shields, UK
Roles: pharmacist
Stewart Pattman
CNorth Tyneside General Hospital Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Shields, UK
Roles: consultant chemical pathologist
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vol. 18 no. 3 196-200
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- Published online June 1, 2018.
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- Henry J Woodford, consultant geriatricianA⇑,
- Scott Barrett, pharmacistB and
- Stewart Pattman, consultant chemical pathologistC
- ANorth Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Shields, UK
- BNorth Tyneside General Hospital, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Shields, UK
- CNorth Tyneside General Hospital Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, North Shields, UK
- Address for correspondence: Dr Henry J Woodford, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Elderly Medicine, Rake Lane, North Shields NE29 8NH, UK. Email: henry.woodford{at}nhct.nhs.uk
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Vitamin D: too much testing and treating?
Henry J Woodford, Scott Barrett, Stewart Pattman
Clinical Medicine Jun 2018, 18 (3) 196-200; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.18-3-196
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