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Ruth E. Hubbard | Zendy; Nancye M. Peel | Zendy; Mayukh Samanta | Zendy; Len Gray | Zendy; Arnold Mitnitski | Zendy; Kenneth Rockwood | Zendy

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Frailty status at admission to hospital predicts multiple adverse outcomes

Author(s) -

Ruth E. Hubbard,

Nancye M. Peel,

Mayukh Samanta,

Len Gray,

Arnold Mitnitski,

Kenneth Rockwood

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afx081

Subject(s) - medicine , delirium , logistic regression , emergency medicine , odds ratio , prospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , adverse effect , geriatrics , acute care , cohort , health care , intensive care medicine , physics , psychiatry , optics , economics , economic growth

frailty is proposed as a summative measure of health status and marker of individual vulnerability. We aimed to investigate the discriminative capacity of a frailty index (FI) derived from interRAI Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Acute Care (AC) in relation to multiple adverse inpatient outcomes.

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