Municipal Acute Units as Part of the Clinical Pathway for Older Patients

Anne-Kari Johannessen; Sissel Steihaug

doi:10.5334/ijic.4643

Municipal Acute Units as Part of the Clinical Pathway for Older Patients

International Journal of Integrated Care

Volume 19 (2017): Issue 4

By: Anne-Kari Johannessen and Sissel Steihaug

Open Access

|Oct 2019

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