Elder care transfer forms

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-161

  Gaddis, Gary M ^a  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN;

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE;

EID: 12844285825     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.11.001     Document Type: Editorial

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