Inappropriate prescribing in the elderly is a risk factor for higher adverse drugs reactions,
hospitalisation, and mortality rates. Therefore, it is necessary to identify irrational …

Background Many older hospitalized patients are at nutritional risk or malnourished and the
nutritional condition is often further impaired during hospitalization. When discharged to own …

Background There is clinical uncertainty regarding the benefits and harms of prescribing
statins in healthy subjects≥ 70 years of age. Objectives The aim of this study was to …

Abstract The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative
(KDOQI) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Chronic Kidney Disease: Evaluation, Classification …

Communicating prognosis, the anticipated course of living with an illness, is a core clinical
skill and a foundation of the patient-clinician relationship. Clinicians find such …

OBJECTIVES: Physicians are uncertain about what medical services should be provided to
older and/or disabled patients. Better understanding of health outcome prioritization among …

Little is known about the circumstances under which older adults initiate chronic dialysis and
subsequent outcomes. Using national registry data, we conducted a retrospective analysis …

Objectives To identify studies that have investigated the health outcome and treatment
priorities of patients with multimorbidity, clinicians or both, in order to assess whether the …

Background for shared decision-making, it is important to discuss of the patients' priorities in
order to align treatment decisions with these priorities. Objective to assess the most …

The global population of older adults is expanding rapidly resulting in a shift towards
managing multiple chronic diseases that coexist and may be exacerbated by cardiovascular …