Clinical care in the aging century - Announcing "care of the aging patient: From evidence to action"

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 2703-2704

  Landefeld, C Seth ^a,b   Winker, Margaret A ^d   Chernof, Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SCAN Foundation   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT PLANNING; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTICE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FAMILY PRACTICE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 73949091129     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1900     Document Type: Editorial

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