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A simple test‐based frailty index to predict survival among cancer patients with an unplanned hospitalization: An observational cohort study

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability to stressors, and predicts risk of adverse outcomes, such as mortality. Frailty can be defined by a frailty index (FI) using an accumulation of deficits approach. An FI comprised of 20 items derived from our previously studied test‐based frai...

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Autores principales: Hembree, Timothy, Theou, Olga, Thirlwell, Sarah, Reich, Richard R., Cao, Biwei, Sehovic, Marina, Syed, Misbahuddin, Verma, Neha, Nguyen, Thu‐Cuc, Keerty, Dinesh, Wesolow, Jaqueline, Koverzhenko, Viktoriya, Extermann, Martine, Huang, Jessica, Ramsakal, Asha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8419777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34350715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cam4.4107