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The combined effects of physical frailty and cognitive impairment on emergency department- versus direct-admission hospitalizations

BACKGROUND: We aimed to study whether physical frailty and cognitive impairment (CI) increase the risk of recurrent hospitalizations in older adults, independent of comorbidity, and disability. METHODS: Two thousand five hundred forty-nine community-dwelling participants from the National Health and...

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Autores principales: Buta, Brian, Friedman, Ari B., Chung, Shang-En, Sheehan, Orla C., Blinka, Marcela D., Gearhart, Susan L., Xue, Qian-Li
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36042414
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03397-6