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Medical management of frailty: confessions of a gnostic.

Overview of attention for article published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, October 1997
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Title
Medical management of frailty: confessions of a gnostic.
Published in
Canadian Medical Association Journal, October 1997
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Authors

K Rockwood

Abstract

Geriatric Medicine is concerned chiefly with the care of frail elderly people, especially when they become ill. Physicians face special challenges in dealing with such patients, who tend to have multiple interacting medical and social problems, impaired function, altered pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, atypical disease presentations and to be affected by polypharmacy. The joy of geriatrics is in systematically meeting each of these challenges, but the techniques that geriatricians use to do so must not be kept secret. More must be done to encourage all physicians to use these techniques in caring for frail elderly people who are ill.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 5%
Unknown 18 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 26%
Student > Master 3 16%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 5%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 5 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 47%
Psychology 2 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Engineering 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 August 2023.
All research outputs
#783,058
of 25,402,889 outputs
Outputs from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#1,204
of 9,455 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#221
of 29,100 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#1
of 11 outputs
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