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Impact of frailty on 30-day and 1-year mortality in hospitalised elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective observational study

OBJECTIVES: This study evaluates the impact of frailty, which is a state of increased vulnerability to stressors, on 30-day and 1-year mortality among elderly patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The main hypothesis is that frailty is an independent predictor of prognosis in elderly CAP...

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Autores principales: Luo, Jia, Tang, Wen, Sun, Ying, Jiang, Chunyan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7783614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33130565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038370