Equipping tomorrow's doctors for the patients of today.
As the proportion of older patients with frailty presenting to health services increases, so does the need for doctors to be adequately trained to meet their needs. The presentations seen in such patients, the evidence-based models of care and skillsets required to deliver them are different than fo...
| Publicado en: | Age & Ageing Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 442 - 448 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2014
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