The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referred to internal medicine

BACKGROUND: we investigated whether two frailty tools predicted mortality among emergency department (ED) patients referred to internal medicine and how the level of illness acuity influenced any association between frailty and mortality. METHODS: two tools, embedded in a Comprehensive Geriatric Ass...

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Published in:Age Ageing
Main Authors: Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah, Theou, Olga, van der Valk, Alexandra M, Rockwood, Kenneth
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583513/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32392289
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa089
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