Middle-aged patients tended to express a strong desire for communication skills, older patients less so.
There were 5, 191 patients aged 65 to 75 and 2, 673 patients aged 76 to 86.
Just over half said they would refer patients aged 71 or over, but only 11% said they would refer patients aged over 81.
The study, funded by the United Kingdom Department of Health, included 748 patients aged 30 to 65.
Integrated Medical administered IMRT to 91 male Medicare patients aged 80 and older over the period the Journal examined.
The survey also revealed an age bias - 94% of GPs said they would always refer patients aged under 50.
The investigators recruited 832 patients aged 18 years or more with chronic HCV who had not been treated with interferon or ribavirin.
The consensus among prostate-cancer experts is that few patients aged 80 and older should undergo radiation because the risks of treating them outweigh the benefits.
However, only 39 patients aged 65 and over would have to be treated with antibiotics for a chest infection to prevent a case of pneumonia.
Among patients aged 76 to 86 years, the pattern was reversed.
The new specialist unit has been "tailored to the needs" of young cancer patients aged 16 to 24 from Bristol, Bath, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Gloucestershire.
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Patients aged 65 to 75 who received thrombolytic therapy had a 30-day death rate of 6.8%, compared with 9.8% for patients who did not get the medication.
Investigators at seven universities and orthopedic surgery centers in the US studied 351 patients aged 45 years or older who had a meniscal tear and mild-to-moderate osteoarthritis of the knee.
This was also true for older patients - those aged 60 years or over - who made up nearly a third of the study.
That study, of 455 women aged over 70, showed patients who had had surgery and tamoxifen lived about three years longer than women who had had surgery but not the drug.
She was joined by 30 other patients who got new hearts aged under a year.
The hospital wrote to patients and two women, aged 34 and 33, reported similar incidents.
There were increases of 30% for people aged 15 to 34 and 37% in patients between the ages of 35 and 44.
The patients, four women and two men aged 56 to 89, died between 1993 and 1995 at the Vermillion county hospital in Clinton, Indiana.
The relatives, aged between 40 and 75, were first degree relatives of Alzheimer's patients.
Further, the vaccine received World Health Organization qualification for use in adults aged 50 years and above, which means WHO member countries can now use the vaccine for older patients.
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