Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders
Acove Project Overview
The Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders project endeavored to develop a comprehensive set of quality-assessment tools for ill older persons. Because "ill older persons" constitute a heterogeneous cohort that is not easily delineated, we created a system to identify high-risk, community-dwelling individuals and targeted the most important clinical conditions affecting them. The indicators are designed to measure care at the level of the health system or health plan.
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- Copyright: American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
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- Pages: 5
- Document Number: RP-1128
- Year: 2001
- Series: Reprints
Originally published in: Annals of Internal Medicine, v. 135, no. 8, pt. 2, October 16, 2001, pp. 642-646.
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