That Was the Year That Was: An Evidence-Based Clinical Geriatrics Update 2002-03

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 828-837

  Fernandez, Helen M ^a   Karani, Reena ^a   Brand, Jennifer ^a   Leipzig, Rosanne M ^a   Soriano, Rainier P ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIGOXIN; GABAPENTIN; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GINKOBA; MEMANTINE; PRAVASTATIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTIPATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLAUCOMA; HEADACHE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INSOMNIA; MORTALITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; TAI CHI; TREMOR; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 2342509660     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52246.x     Document Type: Review

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