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Frailty Phenotypes and Relations With Surgical Outcomes: A Latent Class Analysis.
Anesthesia and analgesia - 1 Oct 2018
Sadiq Furqaan, Kronzer Vanessa L, Wildes Troy S, McKinnon Sherry L, Sharma Anshuman, Helsten Daniel L, Scheier Lawrence M, Avidan Michael S, Ben Abdallah Arbi
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BACKGROUND: Frailty is an important concept in the care of older adults although controversy remains regarding its defining features and clinical utility. Both the Fried phenotype and the Rockwood deficit accumulation approaches cast frailty as a "burden" without exploring the relative salience of its cardinal markers and their relevance to the patient. New multifactorial perspectives require a reliable...
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