Preventive Home Visits to Elderly People in the Community. Visits Are Most Useful for People Aged >/= 75

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2000 Sep 30

PMID 11012259

Citations 6

Authors

J Newbury

J Marley

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