Quality of Care for Vulnerable Older Patients/IN RESPONSE

Because the VES-13 scoring system dictates that anyone who is in this age group be given an automatic 3 points, we suspect that persons who have scores of 5 or less are in this subgroup. The lack of association between the Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) quality indicators (3) and surviv...

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Published inAnnals of internal medicine Vol. 144; no. 3; p. 219
Main Authors Garrett, Stephanie L, O'Brien, James G, Miles, Toni P, Higashi, Takahiro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia American College of Physicians 07.02.2006
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Inpatient care
Letters to the editor
Older people
Polls & surveys
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Summary:Because the VES-13 scoring system dictates that anyone who is in this age group be given an automatic 3 points, we suspect that persons who have scores of 5 or less are in this subgroup. The lack of association between the Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders (ACOVE) quality indicators (3) and survival in this sample makes a strong argument for palliative care medicine.
ISSN:0003-4819
1539-3704
DOI:10.7326/0003-4819-144-3-200602070-00017