With enhanced longevity, many people in late old age find themselves frail and living at home, often alone. Whilst conceptualisations vary, frailty is often used in clinical practice as a directional term, to refer to older people at particular risk of adverse health outcomes and to organise care. Investigation of the experience of being frail is a complementary and necessary addition to international research endeavours clearly to define, predict and measure frailty.
"Making a Diagnosis: New Models for Old Presented by Patrick Croskerry, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, and Division of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie Universit"
A Doctor-Professor answers the old question "What is the single best thing we can do for our health" in a completely new way.
Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's
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"The rational clinical examination. Is this patient having a myocardial infarction?" in JAMA 1998.
"The International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection (IRAD): new insights into an old disease" in JAMA 2000.
"Evaluation of D-dimer in the diagnosis of suspected deep-vein thrombosis" in NEJM 2003.
"The Canadian C-spine rule versus the NEXUS low-risk criteria in patients with trauma" in NEJM 2003.
"Computed tomography of the head before lumbar puncture in adults with suspected meningitis" in NEJM 2001."