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- Title
An electronic application for rapidly calculating Charlson comorbidity score.
- Authors
Hall, William H; Ramachandran, Ramanathan; Narayan, Samir; Jani, Ashesh B; Vijayakumar, Srinivasan
- Abstract
Uncertainty regarding comorbid illness, and ability to tolerate aggressive therapy has led to minimal enrollment of elderly cancer patients into clinical trials and often substandard treatment. Increasingly, comorbid illness scales have proven useful in identifying subgroups of elderly patients who are more likely to tolerate and benefit from aggressive therapy. Unfortunately, the use of such scales has yet to be widely integrated into either clinical practice or clinical trials research.
- Publication
BMC cancer, 2004, Vol 4, p94
- ISSN
1471-2407
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2407-4-94