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The Development of Outpatient Clinical Glidepaths^TM^ by Joseph H. Flaherty; John E. Morley; Donald J. Murphy; Michael R. Wasserman is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
For clinicians who are struggling with the complexities of medical decision‐making, practice guidelines and evidence‐based medicine (EBM) have become increasingly popular and have potential to positively influence the practice of medicine. Nevertheless, they have their limitations. Guidelines are often rigid, based solely on age, and usually do not take into account a patient's comorbidities, life expectancy, and nonmedical preferences. EBM studies may not always include particular patient populations commonly seen by the geriatric clinician (e.g., studies on lipid‐lowering agents or antihypertensive drug usually exclude the very old or patients who are frail, demented, or at the end of life). These limitations have made it difficult for geriatric clinicians to use these guidelines because of the need to individualize evaluation and treatment approaches and take into account the varied preferences of their older patients. The purpose of this paper is to present an alternative model of care for geriatric clinicians called The Clinical Glidepaths. The Clinical Glidepaths are outpatient tools intended to assist geriatric clinicians in their decision‐making process. They are based on t
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- Author
- Joseph H. Flaherty; John E. Morley; Donald J. Murphy; Michael R. Wasserman
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; The American Geriatrics Society; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8614)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)