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Prevalence and outcomes of frailty in unplanned hospital admissions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of hospital-wide and general (internal) medicine cohorts

BACKGROUND: Guidelines recommend routine frailty screening for all hospitalised older adults to inform care decisions, based mainly on studies in elective or speciality-specific settings. However, most hospital bed days are accounted for by acute non-elective admissions, in which the prevalence and...

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Autores principales: Boucher, Emily L., Gan, Jasmine M., Rothwell, Peter M., Shepperd, Sasha, Pendlebury, Sarah T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10149337/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37138587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101947