Oral health in hospitalized and nonhospitalized community-dwelling elderly patients

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 437-443

  Pajukoski, Hanna ^a,c   Meurman, Jukka H ^a   Snellman Grohn, Satu ^b   Sulkava, Raimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Institute of Dentistry   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DENTAL HEALTH SURVEYS; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOUTH, EDENTULOUS; ORAL HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033209884     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(99)70058-2     Document Type: Article

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