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Treating Older Patients: Who Treats and Why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2010

Judith Globerman
Judith Globerman
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University of Toronto*
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Résumé

A la lumière de la proportion croissante de personnes âgées recourant aux services de médecins, cette recherche tente de déterminer dans quelle mesure les médecins qui traitent les personnes âgées sont différents de leurs collègues qui ne le font pas. Des études précédentes ont porté sur certaines facettes de cette problématique, notamment en ce qui concerne les caractéristiques des médecins, leurs comportements dans la pratique, leurs attitudes et leurs convictions générales. Cette étude examine à nouveau et de façon systématique ces différentes catégories, à partir d'un groupe de médecins, en utilisant une procédure de régression multiple. Les résultats laissent entendre que les médecins qui suivent des patients âgés dans les domaines de la chirurgie orthopédique, de la chirurgie générale et de l'ophthalmologie, ne sont pas vraiment différents de leurs collègues qui traitent des patients plusjeunes. On explore également dans cette étude d'autres explications concernant le choix des patients âgés. On se demande aussi quelles seraient les implications pour les patients âgés de choisir un médecin doté d'une expertise dans les soins gériatriques.

Keywords

Patients âgésrapport cliniquesoins des médecins.Older PatientsDoctor-Patient RelationshipPhysician Care.
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Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , Fall/automne 1991 , pp. 232 - 253
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Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1991

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