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Frailty in older patients is associated with higher rates of morbidity, mortality, and hospital readmission, as well as longer recovery times.
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Supports frailty screening in older surgical patients; leaves open randomized trials for interventions.
Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome of decreased physiologic reserve that describes an older person’s vulnerability to health stressors. Frail patients have higher rates of morbidity, mortality, and hospital readmission and take longer to recover.1,2
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Feldman et al. (2018) studied this question. Frailty in older patients is associated with higher rates of morbidity, mortality, and hospital readmission, as well as longer recovery times.
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