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Blanchette, Patricia Lanoie; And Others – Generations, 1997
This issue includes 18 theme articles that examine clinical care, conditions, and practice as they relate to older adults. It contains articles on the following: men's and women's health, depression, dementia, hypertension, incontinence, bone pain, infections, preventive medicine, geriatric medicine, health care delivery, managed care, long-term…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, Cultural Differences, Diseases
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Lewis, Roya; Lamdan, Ruth M.; Wald, David; Curtis, Michael – Academic Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Gender bias has been reported in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with a variety of illnesses. In the context of our 10-station fourth year Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation, we queried whether this could influence diagnosis in a geriatric case. Case writers hypothesized that, due to this bias, the female standardized…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Identification, Geriatrics, Patients