Multiple Diseases and Polypharmacy in the Elderly: Challenges for the Internist of the Third Millennium
The pattern of patients admitted to internal medicine wards has dramatically changed in the last 20–30 years. Elderly people are now the most rapidly growing proportion of the patient population in the majority of Western countries, and aging seldom comes alone, often being accompanied by chronic di...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Comorbidity |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.15256/joc.2011.1.4 |