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A prospective multicenter cohort study of frailty in younger critically ill patients

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome characterized by loss of physiologic and cognitive reserve that heightens vulnerability. Frailty has been well described among elderly patients (i.e., 65 years of age or older), but few studies have evaluated frailty in nonelderly patients with crit...

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Autores principales: Bagshaw, M., Majumdar, Sumit R., Rolfson, Darryl B., Ibrahim, Quazi, McDermid, Robert C., Stelfox, H. Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27263535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1338-x

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