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In a hospital for the aged it is important for the physicians and nurses to be on the alert to detect cases of fecal impaction, a condition which can be easily overlooked if reliance is placed only on the patient's answers to questions. The possible complications of fecal impaction can be serious; those observed in a 700‐bed geriatric hospital are listed.
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Richard W. Young (1973) studied this question.
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