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The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referred to internal medicine

BACKGROUND: we investigated whether two frailty tools predicted mortality among emergency department (ED) patients referred to internal medicine and how the level of illness acuity influenced any association between frailty and mortality. METHODS: two tools, embedded in a Comprehensive Geriatric Ass...

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Autores principales: Pulok, Mohammad Habibullah, Theou, Olga, van der Valk, Alexandra M, Rockwood, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32392289
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa089