Consider medical care at home

Geriatrics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 9-11

  Meyer, Renee P ^a  

^a RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Activities of daily living; Disability; Functional assessment; Functional status; Home health care; Homebound; Hospitalization

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AGED; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; ERYTHEMA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEMIPLEGIA; HOME CARE; HOME REHABILITATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SELF HELP; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 69849111480     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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