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Quality care for elderly people

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This chapter rounds off the section on sectors of care by looking at hospital services. As in other sectors of care, changes in what is done and how it is done are occurring in hospitals. Dr Mayer manages to combine a historical perspective with an up-to-date analysis of present trends.

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  1. Institute of Ageing and Health, Moseley Hall Hospital, Birmingham, UK

    Peter P. Mayer MA FRCP

  2. Royal College of Physicians Research Unit, London, UK

    Edward J. Dickinson MA MBA FRCP

  3. Department of Geriatric Medicine, Solihull Hospital, West Midlands, UK

    Martin Sandler MB ChB MRCP

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Mayer, P.P. (1997). Hospital services. In: Mayer, P.P., Dickinson, E.J., Sandler, M. (eds) Quality care for elderly people. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3003-3_8

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