Primary Care Practitioners’ Views on Incorporating Long-term Prognosis in the Care of Older Adults
Author(s) -
Nancy L. Schoenborn,
Theron L. Bowman,
Danelle Cayea,
Craig Evan Pollack,
Scott Feeser,
Cynthia M. Boyd
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.14
H-Index - 342
eISSN - 2168-6114
pISSN - 2168-6106
DOI - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.0670
Subject(s) - medicine , life expectancy , primary care , family medicine , qualitative research , gerontology , medline , nursing , population , social science , environmental health , sociology , political science , law
Clinical practice recommendations increasingly advocate that older patients' life expectancy be considered to inform a number of clinical decisions. It is not clear how primary care practitioners approach these recommendations in their clinical practice.
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