Abstract:In the interface between medicine and law, physicians may be asked to comment on a patient's life expectancy. Life expectancy is based on life tables, eg, from the US census, and are published in National Vital Statistics reports. The life expectancy for a particular patient with a serious medical illness or disability cannot be determined from such tables; rather one must investigate the life expectancies associated with the patient's particular disease or condition. Standardized mortality ratios have a compl… Show more
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