… studies suggest that in the future, a greater proportion of the population in Denmark will be
elderly, thus we expect a larger amount of elderly patients[… in older patients than in younger[2]. …

… to study participants or the relevant patient community. Patient consent was not required
for the study. … in observational studies. Biometrics 1998;54:948-63. doi:10.2307/2533848. …

… Study population The Leiden 85-plus Study is an observational population-based study
of … The study design of this general survey of elderly people and characteristics of the …

… of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in elderly patients. We screened a random sample of
817 elderly patients aged 70-84 years from general practice (77.4% of 1056 eligible patients).…

… studies. In contrast, the present study included all very elderly patients treated in the ICU…
One possible contributing reason for a higher mortality rate in elderly ICU patients is the fact …

… 8 No study has examined the overall quality of care given to elderly patients in UK primary
… The results of this study suggest that elderly people in one UK city are receiving inadequate …

… We conducted an observational study of physical activity of elderly inpatients undergoing
rehabilitation across three days, including a weekend day, in comparison with community-…

… The patients were selected from the large prospective LORHEN registry observational study
(described in detail elsewhere in this supplement). All had been diagnosed as having RA …

… In this study, 34.6% of our elderly Chinese patients had a poor bowel preparation at the time
of colonoscopy, and there were seven independent risk factors for bowel preparation failure…

… meta-analysis of 16 observational studies involving a total of 13,478 patients [33], earlier …
of postoperative pneumonia and pressure sores among elderly patients with hip fracture [22]; …