Routine frailty assessment predicts postoperative complications in elderly patients across surgical disciplines – a retrospective observational study

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a frequent and underdiagnosed functional syndrome involving reduced physiological reserves and an increased vulnerability against stressors, with severe individual and socioeconomic consequences. A routine frailty assessment was implemented at our preoperative anaesthesia clin...

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Autores principales: Birkelbach, Oliver, Mörgeli, Rudolf, Spies, Claudia, Olbert, Maria, Weiss, Björn, Brauner, Maximilian, Neuner, Bruno, Francis, Roland C. E., Treskatsch, Sascha, Balzer, Felix
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6839249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31699033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-019-0880-x

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