An in-home nurse-administered geriatric assessment for hypoalbuminemic older persons: Development and preliminary experience

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1244-1248

  Reuben, David B ^a   Effros, Rita B ^a   Hirsch, Susan H ^a   Zhu, Xiaoming ^a   Greendale, Gail A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Home health; Hypoalbuminemia; Malnutrition; Serum albumin

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; SERUM ALBUMIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOME; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NURSE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0032844947     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb05206.x     Document Type: Article

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