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Screening in the elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

E Idris Williams
E Idris Williams*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
*
Professor E Idris Williams, University of Nottingham, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Medicine, The Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK.
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Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 180 - 184
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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