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Assessing Competing Risks in Treating the Elderly
- Source :
- Hospital Practice. 31:155-166
- Publication Year :
- 1996
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 1996.
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Abstract
- For elderly patients, risks associated with a newly diagnosed disease may be less than competing risks of death and disability from other causes. Treatment benefits should be viewed in the context of normal life expectancy and quality of life.
- Subjects :
- Male
Gerontology
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Health Status
Age Factors
Context (language use)
General Medicine
Competing risks
Life Expectancy
Quality of life (healthcare)
Geriatrics
Risk Factors
Newly Diagnosed Disease
Quality of Life
Life expectancy
Humans
Medicine
Female
Mortality
business
Psychiatry
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23771003 and 21548331
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hospital Practice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....185d42a331c339cfee69a430560e96db
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1996.11443383