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An intradialytic aerobic exercise program ameliorates frailty and improves dialysis adequacy and quality of life among hemodialysis patients: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2022
Background Hemodialysis patients with chronic kidney disease exhibit impaired exercise tolerance and functional decline. Despite the life-saving benefits of adequate dialysis, those declines translate into frailty and deteriorating quality of life (QoL).
Sunki Kim, Hye-Ja Park, Dong-Ho Yang
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Assessment of the documentation of frailty at admission in emergency general surgery admission at a tertiary care hospital

British Journal of Surgery, 2023
NHS frailty guidelines advise that frailty score should be documented at the first time of contact for patients aged 65+ years. The Aim of this quality improvement project (QIP) was to assess the adequate documentation of frailty at the time of ...
Anurag Singh, J. Siby, M. Kaur, M. Sajid
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Evaluation of Oral Nutritional Supplementation in the Management of Frailty among the Elderly at Facilities of Community Care for the Elderly

Clinical Nutrition Research, 2021
Adequate nutritional intake in elderly individuals improves frailty. Elderly individuals may exhibit improvements in frailty with the use of community care facilities.
W. Na, Jiyu Kim, Hyeji Kim, Yeji Lee, BongHee Jeong, Sunghaeng Lee, C. Sohn   +6 more
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Randomization-Based Confidence Intervals for Cluster Randomized Trials [PDF]

, 2020
In a cluster randomized trial (CRT), groups of people are randomly assigned to different interventions. Existing parametric and semiparametric methods for CRTs rely on distributional assumptions or a large number of clusters to maintain nominal ...
Rabideau, Dustin J, Wang, Rui
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Frailty as a growing challenge for anesthesiologists – results of a Dutch national survey

BMC Anesthesiology, 2021
Background Frailty is a multidimensional condition characterized by loss of functional reserve, which results in increased vulnerability to adverse outcomes following surgery. Anesthesiologists can reduce adverse outcomes when risk factors are recognized
A. Bouwhuis, C. E. van den Brom, S. A. Loer, C. S. E. Bulte   +3 more
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Treatment adherence and frailty syndrome in hypertensive older adults

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2020
Objective: To analyze the association between adherence to antihypertensive treatment and frailty syndrome in hypertensive older adults. Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach with older adults.
Luípa Michele Silva, Ana Carolina de Souza, Jack Roberto Silva Fhon, Rosalina Aparecida Partezani Rodrigues   +3 more
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The frail patient undergoing cardiac surgery: lessons learned and future perspectives

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
Frailty is a geriatric condition characterized by the reduction of the individual's homeostatic reserves. It determines an increased vulnerability to endogenous and exogenous stressors and can lead to poor outcomes.
Matteo Pozzi, Silvia Mariani, Silvia Mariani, Margherita Scanziani, Davide Passolunghi, Adriana Bruni, Alberto Finazzi, Alberto Finazzi, Maddalena Lettino, Giuseppe Foti, Giuseppe Foti, Giuseppe Bellelli, Giuseppe Bellelli, Giovanni Marchetto   +13 more
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Older persons are frailer after an emergency care visit to the out-of-hours general practitioner cooperative in the Netherlands: a cross-sectional descriptive TOPICS-MDS study

BMC Family Practice, 2020
Background In the Netherlands, community-dwelling older people with primary care emergency problems contact the General Practitioner Cooperative (GPC) after hours. However, frailty remains an often unobserved hazard with adverse health outcomes.
Anneke Bloemhoff, Yvonne Schoon, Kien Smulders, Reinier Akkermans, Lilian C. M. Vloet, Karin van den Berg, Sivera A. A. Berben, On behalf of the TOPICS-MDS Consortium   +7 more
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Anesthetic management of geriatric patients [PDF]

Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2020
The number of elderly patients who frequently access health care services is increasing worldwide. While anesthesiologists are developing the expertise to care for these elderly patients, areas of concern remain.
Byung-Gun Lim, Il-Ok Lee
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Four patients with a history of acute exacerbations of COPD: implementing the CHEST/Canadian Thoracic Society guidelines for preventing exacerbations [PDF]

, 2015
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if ...
A Singanayagam, AJ Crockett, AL Ries, AM Yohannes, C Fletcher, CE Bucknall, CM Fletcher, CP Hersh, D Brooks, DD Marciniuk, F Maltais, FA Cleutjens, G Guyatt, GJ Criner, J Chong, J Pynoos, J Strijbos, JJ Soler-Cataluna, JW Dodd, K Gruffydd-Jones, K Rockwood, K Rockwood, KH Groenewegen, L Cheyne, L Lahousse, L Puente-Maestu, LP Fried, LS Bickford, M Guell, M Stickland, M Zwerink, MM Ball, P Almagro, PG Gibson, PW Jones, S Hull, SK Park, SP Newman, T Bodenheimer, T Lee, TM Wilkinson, VS Fan, World Health Organization, Y Lacasse   +43 more
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