A Controlled Trial of a Nursing‐Centered Intervention in Hospitalized Elderly Medical Patients: The Yale Geriatric Care Program

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1353-1360

  Inouye, Sharon K ^a   Wagner, D Raye ^b   Acampora, Denise ^a   Horwitz, Ralph I ^a   Cooney, Leo M ^a   Tinetii, Mary E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology and Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027483812     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb06487.x     Document Type: Article

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