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Eligibility for home care certification what clinicians should know

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  1. Division of Geriatrics, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St., 02903, Providence, RI

    Tom J. Wachtel MD & David R. Gifford MD, MPH

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This work was conducted while David Gifford was a Pfizer-American Geriatrics Society postdoctoral fellow.

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Wachtel, T.J., Gifford, D.R. Eligibility for home care certification what clinicians should know. J GEN INTERN MED 13, 705–709 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00208.x

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