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Changes of a frailty index based on common blood and urine tests during a hospital stay on geriatric wards predict 6-month and 1-year mortality in older people

BACKGROUND: We aimed to evaluate the abilities of a 21-item frailty index based on laboratory blood and urine tests (FI-Lab21) assessed at different points in time, ie, at admission to hospital (FI-Lab21(admission)) and before discharge from hospital (FI-Lab21(discharge)), and the change of the FI-L...

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Autores principales: Jäger, Jakob, Sieber, Cornel Christian, Gaßmann, Karl-Günter, Ritt, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6394369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30880928
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S191117