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Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Johannes O. Vang
Johannes O. Vang
Affiliation:
Office of Health Technology AssessmentWorld Health OrganizationRegional Office for Europe
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Extract

Professor Brian Jennett has written a thoughtful and comprehensive article on Intensive Care for the Elderly, mainly from the British and North American perspective. In my commentary I shall try to look at the issue from a Scandinavian perspective, especially a Swedish one.

Type
Technology and Health Care for the Elderly
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 23 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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