IU Health Bloomington Noon Conference

1. Describe the concepts of frailty and multimorbidity and how these relate to treatment of hypertension in the elderly; and
2. Describe some of the limits in applicability of clinical practice guidelines to very elderly patients.

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Physicians

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References for this presentation can be found here: 6.29.18 references.pdf

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