Clinical frailty adds to acute illness severity in predicting mortality in hospitalized older adults: An observational study.

Keevil, Victoria L.; Wallis, Stephen; Romero-Ortuno, Roman; Biram, Richard W S

doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2016.08.033

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Clinical frailty adds to acute illness severity in predicting mortality in hospitalized older adults: An observational study.

Author(s): Roman Romero-Ortuno ¹ , Stephen Wallis ² , Richard Biram ² , Victoria Keevil ³

Publication date (Electronic): Nov 2016

Journal: European journal of internal medicine

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Keywords: Frail elderly, Hospital medicine, Mortality, Patient acuity, Survival analysis

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Frail individuals may be at higher risk of death from a given acute illness severity (AIS), but this relationship has not been studied in an English National Health Service (NHS) acute hospital setting.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Eur. J. Intern. Med.

Title: European journal of internal medicine

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1879-0828

ISSN (Print): 0953-6205

Publication date (Electronic): Nov 2016

Volume: 35

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[1 ] Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Clinical Gerontology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Electronic address: roman.romero-ortuno@nhs.net.

[2 ] Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

[3 ] Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Clinical Gerontology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Publisher Item ID: S0953-6205(16)30298-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2016.08.033

PubMed ID: 27596721

SO-VID: 0b456d8f-b52f-40b7-9f0a-2b0b61c2c27b

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Keywords: Survival analysis,Patient acuity,Mortality,Hospital medicine,Frail elderly

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Keywords: Survival analysis, Patient acuity, Mortality, Hospital medicine, Frail elderly

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