Interventions for improving older patients' involvement in primary care episodes
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Interventions for improving older patients' involvement in primary care episodes.
BACKGROUND There is a growing expectation among patients that they should be involved in the delivery of medical care. Accumulating evidence from empirical studies shows that patients of average age who are encouraged to participate more actively in treatment decisions have more favourable health outcomes, in terms of both physiological and functional status, than those who do not. Intervention...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd004273.pub2