TY  - JOUR
T1  - IS concentration on more intensive treatment for younger patients more rational and humane than ignorant?
AU  - Jelinek M
Y1  - 2009/08/10
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.241
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1442
EP  - 1442
VL  - 169
IS  - 15
N2  - 
From a risk management perspective, a fatal error in a 50-year-old patient with ACS would result in a loss of 26 years of life expectancy. A similar fatal error in an 80-year-old patient would result in a loss of 7 years of life expectancy. This is a loss of life expectancy of 19 years more in the younger than in the older patient. If we considered the loss of quality-adjusted life years, the difference in quality-adjusted life expectancy would be even greater. Most practitioners have an intuitive feel that this sort of error is worse in a younger than in an older patient.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2009.241
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2009.241
ER  -