Age, comorbidity, life expectancy, and pulmonary nodule follow-up in older veterans.

Age, comorbidity, life expectancy, and pulmonary nodule follow-up in older veterans.

BACKGROUND:Pulmonary nodule guidelines do not indicate how to individualize follow-up according to comorbidity or life expectancy. OBJECTIVES:To characterize comorbidity and life expectancy in older veterans with incidental, symptom-detected, or screen-detected nodules in 2008-09 compared to 2013-14...

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Main Authors: Melisa L Wong, Ying Shi, Kathy Z Fung, Sarah Ngo, Brett M Elicker, James K Brown, Robert A Hiatt, Victoria L Tang, Louise C Walter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6059441?pdf=render

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