Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7832, 2011, Pages 1029-1030

  Stuck, Andreas E ^a   Iliffe, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE;

GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS;

EID: 81555213100     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d6799     Document Type: Editorial

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