Dehydration: Myth and Reality

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 287-288

  Crecelius, Charles ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WATER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEHYDRATION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE MARKER; DYSPHAGIA; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; FLUID INTAKE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LONG TERM CARE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHYDRATION; THIRST; WATER LOSS;

EID: 44449114264     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.03.010     Document Type: Editorial

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