Older adult openness to physician questioning about firearms

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2214-2215

  Betz, Marian E ^a   Flaten, Hanna K ^a   Miller, Matthew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; INTERVIEW; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SUICIDAL IDEATION; COUNSELING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION DISORDERS; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 84944590471     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13695     Document Type: Letter

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