New Clinical Tool Assesses Health Risks for Older Adults
UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults - March 05, 2013
UCSF News reports on a new tool to assess health risks for older adults designed for physicians to assess their geriatric patients in a medical setting:
Calculating medical risk can be an inexact science, especially for older adults, with many factors from the environment to chronic diseases helping determine how long a person lives. Now, a UC San Francisco team has developed a tool that can help determine – and perhaps influence – senior citizens' 10-year survivability rates.
This tool is designed for physicians to assess their geriatric patients in a medical setting. It is not meant for [...]