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Hospital readmission and the elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

NR Colledge  and
MJ Ford
NR Colledge*
Affiliation:
Geriatric Medicine Unit, City Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
MJ Ford
Affiliation:
Medical Unit, Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
*
NR Colledge, Geriatric Medicine Unit, City Hospital, Greenbank Drive, Edinburgh EH10 5SB, UK.
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , November 1994 , pp. 359 - 364
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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