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Readmitted older patients in a country without geriatric medicine departments

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  1. Serviço de Medicina III, Hospital Pulido Valente, CHLN, Alameda das Linhas de Torres, 117, 1769-001, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Magalhães, Mariana Alves & Alda Jordão

  2. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mariana Alves & Alda Jordão

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Magalhães, N., Alves, M. & Jordão, A. Readmitted older patients in a country without geriatric medicine departments. Eur Geriatr Med 13, 1127–1128 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-022-00696-4

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