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Volume 3, Issue 5, Page 4 (May 2008)


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Panel Urges Measures of Competence in Geriatrics

KEITH HAGLUND (Senior Editor)

WASHINGTON — The U.S. health workforce, including physicians, is “woefully unprepared” to deal with the coming onslaught of aging Americans, according to an Institute of Medicine panel that cited poor training and perverse payment incentives in geriatrics as among the chief problems.

PII: S1558-0164(08)70168-8

doi:10.1016/S1558-0164(08)70168-8


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