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Orthogeriatric Unit: a thinking process and a working model

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  1. Cattedra di Geriatria, Area di Geriatria, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Via dei Compositori 130, 00128, Roma, Italy

    Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi MD

  2. ASL Roma E, Servizio di Geriatria, Roma

    Antonella Gemma

  3. ASL Taranto 1, Servizio di Geriatria, Taranto, Italy

    Oliviero Capparella

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Incalzi, R.A., Gemma, A. & Capparella, O. Orthogeriatric Unit: a thinking process and a working model. Aging Clin Exp Res 20, 109–112 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03324756

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