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Prevalence of Frailty and Reliability of Established Frailty Instruments in Adult Elective Colorectal Surgical Patients: a Prospective Cohort Study

2019-10-04

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Frailty is associated with adverse outcome in older surgical patients but the strength of the association varies widely between studies. This may be due in part to the wide range of instruments used to assess frailty. Large population studies now demonstrate that frailty is prevalent in all adult age groups. However, there are limited data on the association between frailty...

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93f7fea6-146a-5e0f-b621-ec525d9d7c81
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10.21203/rs.2.15617/v1
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