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Evaluation of frailty and influencing factors in old people in hospital institution: Evidence for a phenotype of frailty.
Medicine - 1 Jan 2018
Yang Fan, Chen Qing-Wei
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We assessed the frailty status of inpatients and analyzed the factors influencing frailty status to explore the reasons for frailty and identify feasible intervention strategies.A total of 1494 geriatric patients aged ≥60 years were recruited as subjects. All patients were hospitalized between September 2014 and August 2015 in the internal medicine units of 3 hospitals in Chongqing and Zunyi in the southwestern...
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