A Prospective Evaluation of Grip Strength Comparing a Low-Tech Method to Dynanometry in Preoperative Surgical Patients and Weak Intensive Care Patients

OBJECTIVE: Grip strength testing offers a mechanism to identify patients in whom frailty might be present, discriminate between robust elderly and vulnerable younger patients, and can be used as a tool to track changes in muscle bulk over the course of an inpatient stay. We compared gold-standard qu...

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Autores principales: Shea, Mark J., Weightman, Anika, Wibrow, Bradley, Anstey, Matthew H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2022
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36313918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3428851

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36313918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3428851

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