title: Awareness of hypercalcaemia in a hospital population?
abstract: In a hospital population all patients with hypercalcaemia were registered consecutively during a 6-month period. Fifty per cent of the patients having hypercalcaemia, which was defined as serum calcium concentrations (albumin corrected) above normal mean + 3 standard deviations, had a serum calcium analysis requested. Of these between 14% and 96%, dependent on the clinical diagnosis and the degree of hypercalcaemia, had the hypercalcaemia identified. Since the prevalence of hypercalcaemia was estimated to be 2.6% and only about 1:4 was identified by the clinicians, correct diagnosis of hypercalcaemia seems to be a problem.
authors.affiliation: Mineral Metabolic Research Group, Herlev County Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Frølich
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McNair
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Transbøl
mesh_terms: D002118:Calcium / Q000097:blood; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006961:Hyperparathyroidism / Q000150:complications; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications
chemical_list: D002118:Calcium