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Acute care of severely frail elderly patients in a CGA-unit is associated with less functional decline than conventional acute care
BACKGROUND: A high percentage of individuals treated in specialized acute care wards are frail and elderly. Our aim was to study whether the acute care of such patients in a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) unit is superior to care in a conventional acute medical care unit when it comes to a...
Autores principales: | Ekerstad, Niklas, Dahlin Ivanoff, Synneve, Landahl, Sten, Östberg, Göran, Johansson, Maria, Andersson, David, Husberg, Magnus, Alwin, Jenny, Karlson, Björn W |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5557103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28848332 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S139230 |
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