House Calls to the Elderly — A Vanishing Practice among Physicians
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- 18 December 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 337 (25) , 1815-1820
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199712183372507
Abstract
Despite the growth in other home health care services, the number of house calls by physicians has declined dramatically during this century. We determined the frequency of house calls made by physicians to elderly U.S. patients in 1993 and analyzed the characteristics of the physicians and patients involved.Keywords
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