Re: Predictors of 1-year mortality in patients discharged from the hospital following acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Zendy

Grégory Baptista | Zendy; Ernestine Ferreira | Zendy; Amandine Forestier | Zendy; F. Raschilas | Zendy

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Re: Predictors of 1-year mortality in patients discharged from the hospital following acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Author(s) -

Grégory Baptista,

Ernestine Ferreira,

Amandine Forestier,

F. Raschilas

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afj075

Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary disease , exacerbation , acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , copd , disease , intensive care medicine , acute hospital , emergency medicine , cardiology , health care , economic growth , economics

321 we, today, call Geriatric Medicine but with wider knowledge and experience to deal with general patients of all ages. Many of my General Practitioner colleagues tell me that they are waiting for some of their patients to get older so I can see them. As the late R. E. Irvine (the founder of orthogeriatrics) used to put it, ‘What is good for older people is good for younger people but what is good for younger people is not always good for older people.’

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