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October 1, 1983Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

The Medical Evaluation and Management of the Elderly Surgical Patient

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Elderly surgical patients

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JJJerry Johnson

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Overview

Supports comorbidity-focused perioperative evaluation over age alone; leaves open prospective validation in contemporary surgical populations.

Structured PICO

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Population
Elderly surgical patients
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Intervention
Preoperative evaluation and selective ancillary tests

Advanced age alone does not significantly increase perioperative risk; rather, underlying pathologic changes drive cardiovascular and pulmonary complications.

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Jerry Johnson (1983) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8ad808a42d46e0ffca9c38https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1983.tb04606.x
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