The process of care in preventive in-home comprehensive geriatric assessment

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1044-1050

  Alessi, Cathy A ^a,b,f   Stuck, Andreas E ^a   Aronow, Harriet U ^a,c   Yuhas, Karen E ^c   Bula, Christophe J ^a   Madison, Rodger ^d   Gold, Marcia ^c   Segal Gidan, Freddi ^e   Fanello, Roslyn ^c   Rubenstein, Laurence Z ^a,b   Beck, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Veterans Affairs South Central Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center   (United States)

^c Senior Health and Peer Counseling ^*

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030860285     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb05964.x     Document Type: Article

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