ELi5 How does life expectancy work ? In many fields of…
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ELi5 How does life expectancy work ?
In many fields of medicine, you often come across treatment protocols that say:
xyz treatment if the patient has a life expectancy of more than 5 years.
abc treatment if the patient has a life expectancy of less than 5 years.
But then nowhere in the textbook does it explain **how** you as the doctor are supposed to calculate the patient's life expectancy in the first place.
So many advanced diseases, have treatment protocols that show different recommendations based on life expectancy either above or below a certain threshold. e.g. "life expectancy above 10 years, do x, if life expectancy is less than 10 years, do y" ....and then they never explain how you're supposed to calculate the life expectancy.
urg!
Whenever I try looking it up online, I find so many mathematical formulas that it leaves me more confused than any closer to the answer.
The only thing I guess is... the more comorbid conditions the person has, the lower their life expectancy (shrugs)
#education
In many fields of medicine, you often come across treatment protocols that say:
xyz treatment if the patient has a life expectancy of more than 5 years.
abc treatment if the patient has a life expectancy of less than 5 years.
But then nowhere in the textbook does it explain **how** you as the doctor are supposed to calculate the patient's life expectancy in the first place.
So many advanced diseases, have treatment protocols that show different recommendations based on life expectancy either above or below a certain threshold. e.g. "life expectancy above 10 years, do x, if life expectancy is less than 10 years, do y" ....and then they never explain how you're supposed to calculate the life expectancy.
urg!
Whenever I try looking it up online, I find so many mathematical formulas that it leaves me more confused than any closer to the answer.
The only thing I guess is... the more comorbid conditions the person has, the lower their life expectancy (shrugs)
#education
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