Prognostic Indices In Patient Care: Useful or Waste of Time?
January 10, 2012
Many clinical decisions in older persons are dependent on life expectancy. For example, as life expectancy declines, cancer screening is…
A New Tool for Estimating Prognosis in the Elderly
May 2, 2011
“What if your doctor, making use of a Web site that collected a number of tested geriatric scales, could enter…
Outcomes of Surgery in Older Persons: How Could We Know So Little?
December 28, 2010
About half of all operations performed in the United States are performed on persons over the age of 65. So…
Desktop Medicine: Here to Stay
November 21, 2010
I want to draw readers attention to a brilliant essay in JAMA by Jason Karlawish. He describes a new concept of…
Palliative Care Prolongs Life
August 19, 2010
Thanks to Wikimedia commons for picture, A puffer fish kissing the glass. No intentional relationship to the post, Just loved…
Persistent Vegetative State: An apt description for the media coverage of PVS
February 4, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine released a study today revealing some awareness in a minority of patients diagnosed with…
Mammograms in Women with Dementia: What’s the Problem?
January 29, 2010
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A study in the American Journal of Public Healthexamining mammogram use in older persons found that 18% of women with…
Survival after in-hospital CPR in the Elderly
July 13, 2009
NEJM published a paper last week looking at CPR outcomes in the elderly. The main question of the paper addresses…