为避免对老年患者过度检查、过度治疗,医学指导原则要求医生在决策时更多地将寿命因素考虑在内。但有研究显示,临床医生却一直疏于预测病人剩下的时日。加州大学旧金山分校的研究人员推出一种评估机制,将老人分为从“一般”到“很好”16 To avoid over-examining and over-treating elderly patients, the medical guidelines require doctors to take life-expectancy more into consideration when making decisions. However, some studies show that clinicians have been negligent in predicting the patient’s remaining time. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, introduced an evaluation mechanism that divides the elderly from “normal ” to “good ” 16