Back to the future: Home-based primary care for older homebound Canadians: Part 2: Where we are going;Retour vers le futur: Soins primaires à domicile pour les Canadiens âgés confinés à la maison: Partie 2: Où nous allons

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Stall, Nathan ^a   Nowaczynski, Mark ^b   Sinha, Samir K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELDERLY CARE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOME CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SPECIALIZATION;

AGED; CANADA; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOMEBOUND PERSONS; HOUSE CALLS; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84875190008     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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