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Ageism in cardiology

Bowling, A; (1999) Ageism in cardiology. British Medical Journal , 319 (7221) 1353 - 1355. 10.1136/bmj.319.7221.1353. Green open access

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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
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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