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A prospective study of symptoms, function, and medication use during acute illness in nursing home residents: design, rationale and cohort description

BACKGROUND: Nursing home residents are at high risk for developing acute illnesses. Compared with community dwelling adults, nursing home residents are often more frail, prone to multiple medical problems and symptoms, and are at higher risk for adverse outcomes from acute illnesses. In addition, be...

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Autores principales: Hung, William W, Liu, Sophia, Boockvar, Kenneth S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2916000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20630095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-10-47