Emotional vitality and change in lower extremity function after acute medical illness and hospitalization [1]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1814-1815

  Blè, Alessandro ^a   Volpato, Stefano ^a   Pacetti, Monica ^a   Zuliani, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; STRESS;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMORBIDITY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 0348011594     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51572_1.x     Document Type: Letter

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