… The results of this meta-analysis provided evidence that elderly patients have a 50%
increased risk of RCAVF failure at 12 months compared with non-elderly adults (OR, 1.525) This …

… Core tip: This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the comparative effect of
laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy in elderly patients. Critical analysis of solid study data, …

… evaluate the quality of drug therapy among elderly patients living in nursing homes, using
quality … Secondary aims were to compare quality in the young and old elderly and to determine …

… The demand of elderly patients for major surgical … analysis addressing two specific aims.
First, to describe how much of the surgical workload is devoted to the care of elderly patients. …

… slowly to any patient and, I think, more slowly to an elderly patient. This patient was in analy…
of this paragraph contains the whole work of the analysis. Following his operation, I cannot …

… Conclusion: Quality of life is diminished among elderly patients in institutions and the most
… Then we performed a factor analysis of the QUALID scale. A principal component analysis …

… processes of care and 30-day mortality were determined with logistic regression analysis. …
suggests that opportunities exist to improve hospital care of elderly patients with pneumonia. …

… the quality of care for elderly patients using ACOVE (-based) QIs in order to evaluate the state
of the quality of care … studies, we used the QI scores of the control group for this analysis. …

… Overall, the quality of life (QOL) in elderly patients did not significantly deteriorate with … QOL
in elderly patients was similar to that of younger patients. Although the elderly suffered from …

… The results of this meta-analysis provide evidence that delirium in elderly patients is
associated with an increased risk of death, institutionalization, and dementia, independent of age, …