Ability of the Short Physical Performance Battery Frailty Index to Predict Mortality and Hospital Readmission in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Unplanned hospitalisation is a marker of poor prognosis and a major financial burden in patients with cirrhosis. Frailty-screening tools could determine the risk for unplanned hospital admissions and death. The study aims to evaluate the bedside frailty-screening tool (Short Physica...

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Autores principales: Essam Behiry, Mervat, Mogawer, Sherif, Yamany, Ahmed, Rakha, Maha, Awad, Rana, Emad, Nahla, Abdelfatah, Yasmine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31186966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8092865

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31186966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8092865

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