Comparative assessment of two frailty instruments for risk-stratification in elderly surgical patients: study protocol for a prospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Frailty is an aggregate expression of susceptibility to poor outcomes, owing to age-, and disease-related deficits that accumulate within multiple domains. Older patients who are frail before surgery are at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality, and use a disproportionately high a...

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Autores principales: McIsaac, Daniel I., Taljaard, Monica, Bryson, Gregory L., Beaule, Paul E., Gagne, Sylvain, Hamilton, Gavin, Hladkowicz, Emily, Huang, Allen, Joanisse, John, Lavallée, Luke T., Moloo, Hussein, Thavorn, Kednapa, van Walraven, Carl, Yang, Homer, Forster, Alan J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27842511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-016-0276-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5109639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27842511
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-016-0276-0

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