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Anna Maria Meyer1, Ingrid Becker2, Giacomo Siri3

  • 1Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
|March 27, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
Aging medicineComprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)Geriatric resourcesGeriatric syndromesGrade of careMultidimensional prognostic index (MPI)

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