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Clinical Features

Use of Multicompartment Compliance Aids for Elderly Patients: Patient Viewpoints and Hospital Length of Stay

Siobhan H. M. Brown Specialist Registrar, Rotherham General Hospital, Rotherham, UK
, BSc (Hons), MBChB, MRCP (UK),
Umbreen Hafeez Specialist Registrar, Rotherham General Hospital, Rotherham, UK
, MBChB, MRCP (UK) &
Ahmed H. Abdelhafiz Consultant Geriatrician and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Elderly Medicine, Rotherham General Hospital, Rotherham, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
, MBChB, MSc, FRCP, MD
Pages 186-191 | Published online: 13 Mar 2015

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