The use of accepted preventive medicine practice among elderly patients in community clinics in the Jerusalem area

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 352-355

  Lahad, Amnon ^a,c   Anshelevitz, Valentin ^b,c   Sonnenblick, Moshe ^b,c   Dwolatzky, Tzvi ^b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elderly; Guidelines; Prevention; Primary care

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; HEALTH CARE; HORMONES; IMMUNIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING;

PREVENTIVE MEDICINES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CALCIUM; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; DIGITAL COMPUTER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEARING TEST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTESTINE EXAMINATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROSTATE CANCER; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUPPLEMENTATION; VISION TEST;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0038660159     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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