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Life expectancy calculators / principal investigator, Thomas Rector ; co-investigators Brent Taylor, Shahnaz Sultan, Aasma Shaukat, Selcuk Adabag, David Nelson, Timothy Capecchi ; research associate, Roderick MacDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Rector, Thomas S., author.
- Series:
- Evidence-based synthesis program (Series)
- Evidence-based synthesis program
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Veterans Administration.
- Life expectancy--United States.
- Life expectancy.
- Life Expectancy.
- Models, Statistical.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- United States. Veterans Administration.
- Life Expectancy.
- Models, Statistical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv, 54 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- At head of title: QUERI
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Quality Enhancement Research Initiative, Health Services Research & Development Service, June 2016.
- Summary:
- Estimation of life expectancy serves an important role in clinical decisions about screening for disease and treatment in primary care practices. Increasingly, clinical guidelines recommend a course of action in context of the patient's life expectancy. While many tools have been developed to estimate life expectancy or the likelihood of surviving for a period of time, there are no well-established decision support tools that are broadly applicable to primary care. For a life expectancy calculator to gain widespread use in primary care, it needs to have acceptable and validated predictive accuracy at decision-relevant times such as 6 months or 5 years, proven usefulness, and be readily available. In 2012, a systematic review by Yourman et al summarized existing life expectancy calculators that may be useful for older patients in primary care. However, none of the reviewed calculators met our criteria for widespread use. The purpose of this systematic review was to update the search on life expectancy calculators, with focus on calculators that may be valuable for use in the Veterans Health Administration population receiving primary care.
- Notes:
- "June 2016."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 28-29).
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (VA, viewed February 19, 2021).
- OCLC:
- 980504155
- Access Restriction:
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
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