Chapter from

Baliga's Textbook of Internal Medicine

www.MasterMedFacts.com

authored by

Jeanette Ross, MD

Professor/ Clinical Associate Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Department of Family & Community Medicine and Department of Medicine

University of Texas San Antonio

&

Eric Widera, MD

Professor of Medicine, Director, Hospice & Palliative Care Service (SFVAMC), Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program (UCSF)

University of California San Francisco