Of proverbs and prevention: Aspiration and its consequences in older patients

Age and Ageing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-4

  Connolly, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; MOUTHWASH;

ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; DYSPHAGIA; EDITORIAL; FRAIL ELDERLY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MOUTH HYGIENE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; APHORISMS AND PROVERBS AS TOPIC; COGNITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MOUTH; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS;

EID: 77949353807     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp214     Document Type: Editorial

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