Older patients in acute care hospitals are at high risk for problems. Care of older persons is further jeopardized by a shortage of physicians and nurses interested and prepared in gerontology and geriatrics, as shown in a survey of hospitals and staff in one southwestern state.
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Hogstel et al. (1995) studied this question.
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