Accumulated Frailty Characteristics Predict Postoperative Discharge Institutionalization in the Geriatric Patient

INTRODUCTION: Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability to health-related stressors and can be measured by summing the number of frailty characteristics present in an individual. Discharge institutionalization (rather than discharge to home) represents disease burden and functional dependence fo...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Robinson, Thomas N, Wallace, Jeffrey I, Wu, Daniel S, Wiktor, Arek, Pointer, Lauren, Pfister, Shirley M, Sharp, Terra J, Buckley, Mary J, Moss, Marc
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: 2011
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3132184/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21435921
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2011.01.056
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