When your patient is hospitalized: Tips for primary care physicians

Geriatrics

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 36-47

  Palmer, Robert M ^a   Bolla, Leela ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; DECUBITUS; DELIRIUM; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALNUTRITION; NURSING HOME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVIEW; SYNDROME DELINEATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0031462026     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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