Old age, frailty, and atrial fibrillation: the challenge of heterogeneity

Is age just a number?When it comes to managing older patients, it is and it isn't.Clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms might use age cut-offs, or they might be age agnostic but still applied to older people.Neither of these situations considers the heterogeneity of ageing.

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BMJ
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2024-11-21
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q2579
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Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
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Old age, frailty, and atrial fibrillation: the challenge of heterogeneity

Kamran Abbasi
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Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
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Old age, frailty, and atrial fibrillation: the challenge of heterogeneity

Kamran Abbasi
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Is age just a number?When it comes to managing older patients, it is and it isn't.Clinical guidelines and treatment algorithms might use age cut-offs, or they might be age agnostic but still applied to older people.Neither of these situations considers the heterogeneity of ageing.

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