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Frailty index predicts geriatric psychiatry inpatient mortality: a case–control study

BACKGROUND: Many geriatric psychiatry patients suffer from complex psychiatric and medical problems and a minority of patients dies in‐hospital. We assess whether a frailty index (FI) predicts inpatient mortality. METHODS: Electronic health records from 276 patients of a geriatric psychiatry departm...

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Autores principales: Stolz, Erwin, Rásky, Éva, Jagsch, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7496584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32092779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12535