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Identification of older adults with frailty in the Emergency Department using a frailty index: results from a multinational study.

Age and ageing - 1 Mar 2018

Brousseau Audrey-Anne, Dent Elsa, Hubbard Ruth, Melady Don, Émond Marcel, Mercier Éric, Costa Andrew P

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Objective: frailty is a central concept in geriatric medicine, yet its utility in the Emergency Department (ED) is not well understood nor well utilised. Our objectives were to develop an ED frailty index (FI-ED), using the Rockwood cumulative deficits model and to evaluate its association with adverse outcomes. Method: this was a large multinational prospective cohort study using data from the interRAI...

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PMID: 29165543
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afx168

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