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What do we know about frailty in the acute care setting? A scoping review

BACKGROUND: The ability of acute care providers to cope with the influx of frail older patients is increasingly stressed, and changes need to be made to improve care provided to older adults. Our purpose was to conduct a scoping review to map and synthesize the literature addressing frailty in the a...

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Autores principales: Theou, Olga, Squires, Emma, Mallery, Kayla, Lee, Jacques S., Fay, Sherri, Goldstein, Judah, Armstrong, Joshua J., Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6000922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29898673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0823-2