Evidence map›Paper›PMID 7738873›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Reporting on reports--cardiological intervention in elderly patients.

P J Lawson-Matthew, K S Channer

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Article in Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Cardiac surgery in the elderly.Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

P J Lawson-MatthewRoyal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.
K S Channer

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We asked consultant cardiologists and geriatricians in the Trent Region to assess the change in attitude towards cardiological investigations in the elderly over the last five years. We then reviewed data from three cardiothoracic centres to see if this change was reflected in the number of invasive cardiological procedures performed. The consultants' opinion that more elderly patients are being referred for and receiving more investigations and treatment was reflected in a disproportionate increase in cardiac catheterisations and revascularisation procedures in the elderly between 1990 and 1993. There is little to suggest that these changes came about as the result of the College report on cardiological intervention in elderly patients.

Indexed as

AgedAged, 80 and overAge DistributionAngioplastyCardiac Pacing, ArtificialCardiologyCoronary AngiographyCoronary Artery BypassCoronary DiseaseGeriatricsHumansMiddle AgedSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID7738873
PMCPMC5401142

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