Bowling, A;
(1999)
Ageism in cardiology.
British Medical Journal
, 319
(7221)
1353 - 1355.
10.1136/bmj.319.7221.1353.
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Abstract
In assessing the ability to benefit from treatment, chronological age is less important than other factors concerned with the biological ageing process and the presence of associated disease. Any rationing because of limitation of health resources should be on the basis of assessed individual physiological ability to benefit, not on the basis of age any more than on sex or skin colour.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Ageism in cardiology |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.319.7221.1353 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.319.7221.1353 |
Language: | English |
Keywords: | ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION, RATIONING HEALTH-CARE, CORONARY-REVASCULARIZATION, ELDERLY PEOPLE, UNSTABLE ANGINA, UNITED-KINGDOM, THROMBOLYSIS, DEBATE, ANGIOGRAPHY, EXCLUSION |
UCL classification: | UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1625 |
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