Can life expectancy and QALYs be improved by a framework for deciding whether to apply clinical guidelines to patients with severe comorbid disease?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 582-595

  Braithwaite, R Scott ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

geriatric medicine; internal medicine; performance measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 79960476064     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X10386117     Document Type: Article

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