Emergency geriatric surgical admissions
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Emergency admissions to a geriatric medical unit.
DIRECT admission of patients from home is the predominant method of admission to geriatric medical units. Admission may take place as the result of a telephone consultation with the general practitioner or, in less urgent cases, following a domiciliary assessment visit by a member of the medical staff of the unit. However, in recent years the pattern of referral to hospitals in Belfast has chan...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.6134.416