Discussing overall prognosis with the very elderly.

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Published in N Engl J Med on December 08, 2011

Authors

Alexander K Smith1, Brie A Williams, Bernard Lo

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

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