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Individualizing Life Expectancy Estimates for Older Adults Using the Gompertz Law of Human Mortality

BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend incorporating life expectancy (LE) into clinical decision-making for preventive interventions such as cancer screening. Previous research focused on mortality risk (e.g. 28% at 4 years) which is more difficult to interpret than LE (e.g. 7.3 years) for both patients a...

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Main Authors: Lee, Sei J., Boscardin, W. John, Kirby, Katharine A., Covinsky, Kenneth E.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180452/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25265291
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108540
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