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Dementia is a surrogate for frailty in hip fracture mortality prediction

PURPOSE: Among hip fracture patients both dementia and frailty are particularly prevalent. The aim of the current study was to determine if dementia functions as a surrogate for frailty, or if it confers additional information as a comorbidity when predicting postoperative mortality after a hip frac...

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Autores principales: Forssten, Maximilian Peter, Ioannidis, Ioannis, Mohammad Ismail, Ahmad, Bass, Gary Alan, Borg, Tomas, Cao, Yang, Mohseni, Shahin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35355091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00068-022-01960-9