General Practitioners’ Judgment of their Elderly Patients’ Cognitive Status
✍ Scribed by Michael Pentzek; Angela Fuchs; Birgitt Wiese; Gabriela Cvetanovska-Pllashniku; Franziska Haller; Wolfgang Maier; Steffi G. Riedel-Heller; Matthias C. Angermeyer; Horst Bickel; Edelgard Mösch; Siegfried Weyerer; Jochen Werle; Hendrik van den Bussche; Marion Eisele; Hanna Kaduszkiewicz; AgeCoDe study group
- Book ID
- 107413783
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0884-8734
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