## Abstract In general hospitals the psychiatric morbidity in the old and frail is at least 40%. Two models for the provision of a psychiatric service to hospitalized geriatric patients were evaluated in order to identify which model most effectively fulfilled the aims of liaison psychiatry. At pre
Re: geriatric consultation and liaison service
β Scribed by R. C. Baldwin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 59 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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