House calls to the elderly - A vanishing practice among physicians

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 1815-1820

  Meyer, Gregg S ^a   Gibbons, Robert V ^b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOME CARE; HOSPICE; HUMAN; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031470365     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199712183372507     Document Type: Article

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