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By Joseph G. Ouslander, Dan Osterweil, and John Morley. 462 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1992. $49.95. ISBN 0-07-047949-6.

Since 2 million elderly people are receiving medical care in 19,000 nursing homes, it is appropriate and timely to devote careful thought to optimizing the care of nursing home residents. Medical Care in the Nursing Home is a distinguished contribution to this endeavor. The three geriatrician coauthors succeed admirably in their goal of producing a practical textbook of nursing home medicine. The book focuses on presenting specific features of caring for patients in the nursing home, rather than recapitulating topics in internal medicine, urology, psychiatry, and other fields as they apply to the elderly.

The book is divided into three . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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