Interventions for preventing abuse in the elderly

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Choo, Wan Yuen ^a   Hairi, Noran N ^a   Othman, Sajaratulnisah ^a,b   Francis, Daniel P ^c   Baker, Philip R A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COGNITION; COMMUNITY; ELDERLY ABUSE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZED ELDERLY; META ANALYSIS; OFFENDER; ORGANIZATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SECONDARY PREVENTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TERTIARY PREVENTION; VICTIM;

EID: 85020617874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010321     Document Type: Article

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