Solving the problem of the wandering patient

Drug Benefit Trends

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 556-557

  Pomerantz, Jay M ^a,b  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PARANOIA; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOFREQUENCY; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; WANDERING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750563034     PISSN: 10805826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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