Elder maltreatment: A review

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1290-1296

  Collins, Kim A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANUS INJURY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CRIME; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FRACTURE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; NEGLECT; NURSING HOME; PATHOLOGIST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESIDENT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL ABUSE; UROGENITAL TRACT INJURY; VICTIM;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; AGED; DEHYDRATION; ELDER ABUSE; FRACTURES, BONE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; SKIN DISEASES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748526524     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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