Ageism in stroke management

Ageism in interventional stroke studies.

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Ageism in stroke rehabilitation studies.

BACKGROUND stroke is predominantly a disease of older people. While age bias has been demonstrated in studies of pharmacological therapeutic interventions in stroke, the extent of discrimination by age in stroke rehabilitation studies is unknown. The aim of this study was to systematically review the literature to assess the extent of ageism in stroke rehabilitation studies. METHODS all rando...

Ageism in the management of lung cancer.

BACKGROUND age-related differences in the treatment of lung cancer patients have been reported in the past, but most previous studies have not recorded case-mix factors, nor have they studied the impact of such ageism on survival. METHODS a questionnaire-based study of diagnostic and case-mix factors was carried out across 48 hospital Trusts in the UK between 1997 and 1998. We identified 1,65...

Evidence of ageism in the management of acute coronary syndromes.

SIR—Elder rightly points out that older people with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are treated differently to younger patients [1]. Several studies have shown that they are less likely to receive evidence-based treatments despite higher risk of major coronary events. Although I agree that evidence of ageism is mounting and it probably does exist, the case is not yet proven. Could the differences...

In defence of ageism.