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Orthopaedic surgeons’ perceptions of frailty and frailty screening [PDF]
BMC Geriatrics, 2020 Background Over the past decade, there has been significant growth in the awareness and understanding of fragility among orthopaedic surgeons in the context of osteoporotic fractures and with it, improvements in the recognition and management of ...
Mandy M. Archibald +3 more
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Parametric frailty and shared frailty survival models [PDF]
The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata, 2002 Frailty models are the survival data analog to regression models, which account for heterogeneity and random effects. A frailty is a latent multiplicative effect on the hazard function and is assumed to have unit mean and variance theta, which is ...
Roberto G. Gutierrez
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Revista Clínica Española (English Edition), 2023 Objective: determine the extent to which each criterion of the frailty phenotype (either alone or grouped) contributes to the emergence of the syndrome in older people. Methods: observational and analytical study was conducted with 219 male and female older people in outpatient care.
Adrielle Cavalcanti de Pontes Araújo +3 more
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A Predictive Model of Failure to Rescue After Thoracolumbar Fusion [PDF]
Neurospine, 2023 Objective Although failure to rescue (FTR) has been utilized as a quality-improvement metric in several surgical specialties, its current utilization in spine surgery is limited. Our study aims to identify the patient characteristics that are independent
Joanna M. Roy +5 more
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Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 2016 Frailty or infirmity is seen as a central element in the construction of the social imaginary of the fourth age. While the term is widely employed as a bio-medical condition that is capable of being defined and measured, this chapter argues that frailty serves as a marker – a signifier – of an almost intangible loss of capabilities, autonomy and status.
Paul Higgs, Chris Gilleard
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Changes in Salivary Amylase and Glucose in Diabetes: A Scoping Review
Diagnostics, 2021 Background and Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a common long-term disease which can be related with salivary amylase levels. DM has recently been associated with salivary amylase diagnostics that could further impair diagnoses in the diabetic ...
Pilar Pérez-Ros +4 more
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Staff Experience in the NHS: A National Study—An Experience-Based Design Approach
Journal of Patient Experience, 2022 Introduction: A positive patient experience is a key component of good quality of care. Post-pandemic healthcare systems face the challenge of addressing burnout among healthcare staff, who are directly involved in the delivery of healthcare, which has ...
Amoy Johnson MBBCh +5 more
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POSTOPED: improving surveillance of postoperative delirium in a Scottish tertiary hospital
BMJ Open Quality, 2023 Delirium is the most common postoperative complication among patients over the age of 65 years. It is associated with increased morbidity and is a significant financial cost to healthcare systems.We aimed to improve the detection of delirium on the ...
Keiran Anthony Brown, Alison McCulloch
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BMC Geriatrics, 2023 Background Knowledge opportunities lie ahead as everyday activities, social participation, and psychological resilience might be important predictors for frailty state transitioning in the oldest old.
Axelle Costenoble +10 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background Despite increased recognition of frailty and its importance, high quality evidence to guide decision-making is lacking. There has been variation in reported data elements and outcomes which makes it challenging to interpret results across ...
Jeanette C. Prorok +7 more
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