학술논문
How should age affect management of acute myocardial infarction? A prospective cohort study.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*MYOCARDIAL infarction
*HEALTH risk assessment of older people
*AGE groups
*HEALTH care rationing
*HEALTH
*PATIENTS
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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.