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The discharge of elderly patients from hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Tom Chapman  and
Barbara Jack
Tom Chapman*
Affiliation:
Edge Hill University College, Ormskirk, UK
Barbara Jack
Affiliation:
Edge Hill University College, Ormskirk, UK
*
Director, Centre for Health Research and Evaluation, Edge Hill University College, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP, UK.
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1996 , pp. 241 - 247
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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