How applicable are clinical practice guidelines to elderly patients with comorbidities?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Mutasingwa, Donatus R ^a   Ge, Hong ^a   Upshur, Ross E G ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Primary Care Research Unit   (Canada)

^c at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIFE EXPECTANCY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; GERIATRICS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; ONTARIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960451075     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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