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Iron Deficiency — DCE Clinical Case
DCE short-case station: examine this patient for signs of iron deficiency anaemia — a systematic routine from hands to mouth to cause-hunt, the signs that matter, a presentation template, and the discussion that follows.
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DCE short-case station: examine this patient for signs of iron deficiency anaemia — a systematic routine from hands to mouth to cause-hunt, the signs that matter, a presentation template, and the discussion that follows.
The instruction decoded
"Examine for signs of iron deficiency anaemia" is a three-part task: demonstrate the signs of anaemia, the specific signs of iron deficiency, and then — the mark of a physician — examine for the cause and the consequences [1] [3].
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- [1]Camaschella C. Iron-deficiency anemia N Engl J Med, 2015.PMID 25946282
- [2]Lopez A, Cacoub P, Macdougall IC, et al. Iron deficiency anaemia Lancet, 2016.PMID 26314490
- [3]Snook J, Bhala N, Beales ILP, et al. British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines for the management of iron deficiency anaemia in adults Gut, 2021.PMID 34497146
- [4]Mentzer WC Jr. Differentiation of iron deficiency from thalassaemia trait Lancet, 1973.PMID 4123424