Dr. George C Xakellis M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
500 EAST VETERAN STREET TOMAH WI, 54660About
Dr. George Xakellis practices Geriatric Medicine in Lancaster, PA. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Xakellis works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
University of Pittsburgh / Main Campus 1981
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM- Geriatric Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Improving clinic efficiency of a family medicine teaching clinic.
- Making your balance sheet work for you.
- Building collegiality: the real value of problem-based learning.
- Determining the true value of a family practice residency program.
- Improving efficiency in a residency training clinic: results from addressing a root cause of inefficiency.
- A strategy for teaching students concepts of population-based health care for older persons.
- Who provides care to Medicare beneficiaries and what settings do they use?
- Hydrocolloid versus saline-gauze dressings in treating pressure ulcers: a cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Predictors of influenza immunization in persons over age 65.
- Expectations and satisfaction of runners with injury treatments.
- Are patients who use a generalist physician healthier than those who seek specialty care directly?
- Evaluation by second-year medical students of their computer-aided instruction.
- Characteristics of skin blood flow over the trochanter under constant, prolonged pressure.
- Pressure ulcers.
- Ambulatory medical education: teachers' activities, teaching cost, and residents' satisfaction.
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