Readmitted older patients in a country without geriatric medicine departments.

Eur Geriatr Med

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

Published: October 2022

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