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Comparison of multidimensional frailty score, grip strength, and gait speed in older surgical patients

BACKGROUND: Frail older adults are at increased risk of post‐operative morbidity compared with robust counterparts. Simple methods testing frailty such as grip strength or gait speed have shown promising results for predicting post‐operative outcome, but there is a debate regarding the most appropri...

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Autores principales: Choi, Jung‐Yeon, Kim, Kwang‐il, Choi, YoungRok, Ahn, Sang‐Hoon, Kang, Eunyoung, Oh, Heung‐Kwon, Kim, Duck‐Woo, Kim, Eun‐Kyu, Yoon, Yoo‐Seok, Kang, Sung‐Bum, Kim, Hyung‐Ho, Han, Ho‐Seong, Kim, Cheol‐Ho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7113535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31912668
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12509