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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, Michael Lawless, Tiffany K. Gill, Mellick J. Chehade   +3 more
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Associations between frailty trajectories and frailty status and adverse outcomes in community‐dwelling older adults

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2022
Background The association between frailty and adverse outcomes has been clearly defined. Frailty is associated with age, but different frailty evolution patterns might determine the incidence of adverse outcomes at older ages.
Alejandro Alvarez-Bustos, Juan Luis Sánchez-Sánchez, Cristina Alonso-Bouzón   +2 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, Aaron C. Segura, Kranti Rumalla, Georgios P. Skandalakis, Michael M. Covell, Christian A. Bowers   +5 more
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Program Evaluation of SeeMe™: Understanding Frailty Together

Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 2022
Background  Perley Health has implemented SeeMe™: Understanding frailty together (www.perleyhealth.ca), a comprehensive approach to care that integrates the assessment and management of frailty, with an emphasis on goals of care planning.
Andrea Liu, Danielle Sinden, Jennifer Plant, Melissa Norman, Daniela Acosta, Amy Hsu, Benoît Robert   +6 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, Simon Conroy MC ChB, PhD, FRCP, Deborah Thompson MSc, Grace Hassett BA, Alice Clayton MSc, Emma Backhouse BSc   +5 more
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Transitions in robust and prefrail octogenarians after 1 year: the influence of activities of daily living, social participation, and psychological resilience on the frailty state

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, Veerle Knoop, Aziz Debain, Ivan Bautmans, Sven Van Laere, Siddhartha Lieten, Gina Rossi, Dominique Verté, Ellen Gorus, Patricia De Vriendt, the Gerontopole Brussels Study Group   +10 more
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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, Emmanuel Navarro-Flores, Ivan Julián-Rochina, Francisco Miguel Martínez-Arnau, Omar Cauli   +4 more
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An international Delphi consensus process to determine a common data element and core outcome set for frailty: FOCUS (The Frailty Outcomes Consensus Project)

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, Paula R. Williamson, Beverley Shea, Darryl Rolfson, Leocadio Rodriguez Mañas, Matteo Cesari, Perry Kim, John Muscedere   +7 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
doaj   +1 more source

Atherosclerosis in frailty: Not frailty in atherosclerosis [PDF]

Atherosclerosis, 2017
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GUARALDI, Giovanni, Raggi, Paolo
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