Profile of elderly with multiple physician visits: Advocacy for tailored comprehensive geriatric assessment use in clinics

Geriatrics and Gerontology International

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 372-380

  Kuo, Mei Chen ^a,b   Jeng, Chii ^a,d   Chen, Ching Min ^c   Jian, Wen Shan ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CARDINAL TIEN COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE AND MANAGEMENT   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Department of Nursing Cardinal Tien Junior College of Healthcare and Management ^*  (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Comprehensive geriatric assessment; National health insurance; Utilization pattern

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COMORBIDITY; COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MULTIPLE PHYSICIAN VISIT; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; SENILE CATARACT; SENILE DEMENTIA; SKIN DISEASE; TAIWAN; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84897483718     PISSN: 14441586     EISSN: 14470594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ggi.12111     Document Type: Article

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