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Assessment of Dependence in Activities of Daily Living Among Older Patients in an Acute Care Unit
Published on: September 30, 2020
"Social admissions" to hospital are not personal failures but policy ones
Catherine Varner1, Andrew Boozary1, Andreas Laupacis1
1Deputy editor, CMAJ (Varner); Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Boozary), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; executive director, Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Health and Social Policy (Boozary), University Health Network, Toronto, Ont.; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ( Boozary), Boston, Mass.; Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (Varner); Department of Emergency Medicine, Sinai Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine (Varner), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; senior deputy editor, CMAJ (Laupacis).
No abstract available in PubMed .
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