Elderly fare better when included in decisions on treatment trade-offs
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 17:35
in Health & Medicine
Halting a medication that treats one ailment because it may worsen another is a treatment trade-off decision that elderly patients with multiple medical conditions would rather take part in, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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