Providing quality primary care to older adults

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-241

  Warshaw, Gregg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; AMOXICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSURIA; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; POLLAKISURIA; SCREENING TEST; STRESS INCONTINENCE; URGE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG UTILIZATION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 67049110461     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.03.090049     Document Type: Note

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