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Development and Validation of an Abridged Physical Frailty Phenotype for Clinical Use: A Cohort Study Among Kidney Transplant Candidates.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Jan 2024
Chen Xiaomeng, Chu Nadia M, Thompson Valerie, Quint Evelien E, Alasfar Sami, Xue Qian-Li, Brennan Daniel C, Norman Silas P, Lonze Bonnie E, Walston Jeremy D, Segev Dorry L, McAdams-DeMarco Mara A
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BACKGROUND: Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in surgical patients including kidney transplant (KT) recipients. Transplant centers that measure frailty have better pre- and postoperative outcomes. However, clinical utility of existing tools is low due to time constraints. To address this major barrier to implementation in the preoperative evaluation of patients, we developed an abridged frailty phenotype....
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