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Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking

Abstract

Dee Mangin, Kieran Sweeney, and Iona Heath argue that, rather than prolonging life, preventive treatments in elderly people simply change the cause of death—the manner of our dying

Authors

Mangin D; Sweeney K; Heath I

Journal

The BMJ, Vol. 335, No. 7614,

Publisher

BMJ

Publication Date

August 11, 2007

DOI

10.1136/bmj.39241.630741.be1

ISSN

0959-8138