不明原因疾病流行病学调查方式.pptVIP

Following discussions with the Minnesota State Epidemiologist, the Minnesota Department of Health joined the investigation. They visited the only source of health care in Luverne, a clinic. The medical director of the clinic admitted that he had been seeing an unusual number of elevated T4s lately, but said that he had ascribed the phenomenon to laboratory error. Team members reviewed the charts of all clinic patients with elevated T4s in the past year. They interviewed and obtained blood from all these patients and their families. Laboratory results from the blood taken from the first 15