Utility of Frailty Screening Tools in Older Surgical Patients
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Frailty Screening Tools: Frail Detection to Primary Assessment
Frailty is a vulnerable situation among older adults which can lead to unfavorable health outcomes such as falls, mortality, functional decline and institutionalization. The increasing number of elderly people and low rate of mortality has necessitated the need for high-quality medical services for this aging population, and this has led to a high cost of geriatric health care. There exist a hu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2508-4798,2508-4909
DOI: 10.4235/agmr.20.0023