Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation: News and Research on Delivery of Health Care

MeSH tree: N05.300

At 85 and healthy? Why more medicine may do more harm

When a patient has made it to 85 years old in reasonable health, their instinct—and often their physician's—is to redouble prevention efforts, optimize every number and close every gap. I want to argue the opposite.

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