Use of standardised assessment scales in elderly hip fracture patients

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 335-343

  Shepherd, S M ^a,b   Prescott, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MORALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MORALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCOTLAND; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0030179102     PISSN: 00358819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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