학술논문

How should age affect management of acute myocardial infarction? A prospective cohort study.
Document Type
Article
Source
Lancet. 3/20/1999, Vol. 353 Issue 9157, p955-959. 5p. 4 Charts, 4 Graphs.
Subject
*MYOCARDIAL infarction
*HEALTH risk assessment of older people
*AGE groups
*HEALTH care rationing
*HEALTH
*PATIENTS
Language
ISSN
0140-6736
Abstract
Examines how age does and should affect the management of patients and risk stratification in acute mycardial infarction. Methods; Finding that elderly patients were treated less vigorously than younger patients; Suggestion that in planning risk-based management, consideration of age independently of clinical status is inappropriate.