Detecting dehydration in older people: Useful tests

Nursing Times

Volumn 111, Issue 32-33, 2015, Pages 12-16

  Hooper, Lee ^a   Bunn, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Diagnostic tests; Older people; Screening

Indexed keywords

AGED; DEHYDRATION; HUMAN;

AGED; DEHYDRATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84940644673     PISSN: 09547762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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