Outpatient comprehensive geriatric assessment: An intervention whose time has come, or has It?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 371-372

  Silliman, Rebecca A ^a   Barry, Patricia P ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC CARE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING CESSATION; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0032965133     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb03006.x     Document Type: Editorial

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