Age bias (medicine)
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age-bias-medicine-192-4935094
title:
Age bias (medicine)
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In health care management, age bias is a shift in handling of a patient based solely on patient's age while disregarding their physical condition. This may result in undertreatment of reasonably healthy but very old persons. For example, older cancer patients may be undertreated on an unjustified assumption that a treatment is unsafe for older patients. Conversely, age bias may lead to overtreatment of a moderately old person in generally poor health. Another form of age bias is age discriminati
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Inappropriate use of age as a sole criterion for medical decisions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_bias_(medicine)
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2023-01-23T19:23:03Z
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