Acute care for frail older people: Time to get back to basics?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 448-449

  Conroy, Simon ^a   Parker, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE FRAILTY UNIT; ACUTE MEDICAL UNIT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; AGED; INTENSIVE CARE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL CARE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84903147601     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afu063     Document Type: Editorial

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