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- Published on: 22 August 2014
- Published on: 12 August 2014
- Published on: 22 August 2014Holistic care needs to be met with holistic educationShow More
The increasing numbers of frail elderly patients certainly poses a challenge for all parts of the healthcare landscape within the UK and beyond. Whilst organisational change and modifications to where, when and how we deliver care is important this must be underpinned by appropriate education for doctors and allied healthcare professionals.
Much of this needs to be aimed at more junior staff, especially medical...
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None declared. - Published on: 12 August 2014Less health care might be fair in the older patient.Show More
Predicting prognosis in this older group of patients is complex due to their highly variable health status, driven by their fundamentally different prognosis to younger patients. We have published two recent pieces on this theme, showing that firstly though there was an incremental reduction in the use of evidence-based therapies for ACS (acute coronary syndrome) with older age and that better survival was associated with...
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