Guidance

The Impact of Patient Age on Clinical Decision Making in Oncology

This report sets out the results of a study investigating the extent to which age is a factor in oncology treatment decisions. Download The impact of patient age…

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Department of Health and Social Care
Published
23 February 2012

Applies to England

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The Impact of Patient Age on Clinical Decision Making in Oncology

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The result suggests that clinicians may over rely on chronological age as a proxy for other factors which are often but not necessarily associated with age, e.g. comorbidities, frailty.

Published 23 February 2012