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Comparing the Fried frailty phenotype versus the Veterans Affairs frailty index among dialysis dependent patients.
Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis - 1 Oct 2023
Hamiduzzaman Anum, Wu Ruoxue, Murray Victoria, Kalantar-Zadeh Kamyar, Streja Elani, Sy John
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INTRODUCTION: Frailty in dialysis patients is a modifiable disease state which can increase mortality if left untreated but remains underdiagnosed as frailty evaluations can be arduous or time consuming. We evaluate the agreement between a clinical frailty construct (Fried frailty phenotype, FFP) against and an electronic health record-based Veterans Affairs Frailty Index (VAFI) and their association with...
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