This NY Times article entitled "
Interactive Tool to Assess the Likelihood of Death" reports on a new website called
ePrognosis which has 16 assessment scales with “moderate” to “very good” abilities to determine the likelihood of death within six months to five years in various older populations. Researchers at UCSF have offered this interactive tool to physicians who work with older adults, particularly in healthcare settings where older adults have multiple medical conditions (e.g., nursing homes) as a way to explore benefits of aggressively pursuing treatment tools. Do you think this is a helpful or dangerous tool? If you were an older adult with multiple medical conditions, would you want your physician to use a tool such as this one?
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