title: Toward a comprehensive differential diagnosis and clinical approach to fatigue in the elderly.
abstract: This article provides primary care physicians with an encompassing approach to fatigue to help generate a comprehensive differential diagnosis. Two-thirds of patients with fatigue will have an identifiable cause that can be elucidated with a careful history and appropriate laboratory tests. Accordingly, a wide range of differential diagnoses is presented.
authors: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37208, USA. vmorelli@mmc.edu
authors: Vincent
authors: V
authors: Morelli
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005221:Fatigue / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors