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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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Do frailty and comorbidity indices improve risk prediction of 28-day ED reattendance? Reanalysis of an ED discharge nomogram for older people [PDF]

, 2018
Background: In older people, quantification of risk of reattendance after emergency department (ED) discharge is important to provide adequate post ED discharge care in the community to appropriately targeted patients at risk. Methods: We reanalysed data
A Elixhauser, CDAJ Holman, CR Carpenter, CR Carpenter, G Arendts, G Arendts, G Arendts, G Arendts, G Cousins, H Quan, JL Yao, KT Xu, ME Charlson, P Royston, R Calvani, V Chainani   +15 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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Detecting frail, older adults and identifying their strengths: results of a mixed-methods study

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The debate on frailty in later life focuses primarily on deficits and their associations with adverse (health) outcomes. In addition to deficits, it may also be important to consider the abilities and resources of older adults.
Sarah Dury, Eva Dierckx, Anne van der Vorst, Michaël Van der Elst, Bram Fret, Daan Duppen, Lieve Hoeyberghs, Ellen De Roeck, Deborah Lambotte, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Jos Schols, Gertrudis Kempen, G.A. Rixt Zijlstra, Jan De Lepeleire, Birgitte Schoenmakers, Dominique Verté, Nico De Witte, Tinie Kardol, Peter Paul De Deyn, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Liesbeth De Donder   +20 more
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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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Effect of indoor temperature on physical performance in older adults during days with normal temperature and heat waves [PDF]

, 2017
Indoor temperature is relevant with regard to mortality and heat-related self-perceived health problems. The aim of this study was to describe the association between indoor temperature and physical performance in older adults.
Anja Stotz, Clemens Becker, Dawn Skelton, Gillespie, Jochen Klenk, Juha Oksa, Katzman, Kilian Rapp, Nina Beyer, Sawka, Schoon, Ulrich Lindemann   +11 more
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Physical frailty prediction model for the oldest old

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2018
Objective: to present a physical frailty prediction model for oldest old users of primary health care, according to clinical variables. Method: cross-sectional study with proportional stratified sample of 243 oldest old subjects.
Jacy Aurelia Vieira de Sousa, Maria Helena Lenardt, Clóris Regina Blanski Grden, Luciana Kusomota, Mara Solange Gomes Dellaroza, Susanne Elero Betiolli   +5 more
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Shared Decision-Making and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Valvular Heart Disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Patient-centered health care emphasizes shared decision-making (SDM), incorporating both clinical evidence and patient preferences and values. SDM is important in heart valve disease, both because there might be more than one treatment option and due to ...
Sahrai Saeed, Elisabeth Skaar, Andrea Romarheim, John B. Chambers, Øyvind Bleie   +4 more
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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of respite for caregivers of frail older people [PDF]

, 2007
The proportion of frail elderly people in the industrialized world is increasing. Respite care is a potentially important way of maintaining the quality of life for these people and their caregivers.
Arksey, Artaso Irigoyen, Baumgarten, Buchner, Burch, Census 2001., Chapko, Clark, Conlin, Covinsky, Derogatis, Donaldson, Feinberg, Fisher, Gaugler, Gaugler, Grant, Grundy, Hedrick, Hirst, Holm, Johnson, Kosloski, Kosloski, Lawton, Lee, Lund, Maher, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Niebuhr, Pinquart, Quayhagen, Robertson, Robertson, Rockwood, Rockwood, Rockwood, Sörensen, Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness., Walston, Wan, Wells, Wills, Wishart, Yin, Zank, Zarit   +50 more
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Frailty In Older Adults Attending An Outpatient Geriatric Clinic As Measured By The Visual Scale Of Frailty [PDF]

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging
BACKGROUND: Existing instruments for the diagnosis of frailty are limited by their focus on mobility evaluation, failure to incorporate comorbidities, and dichotomous classification of patients as frail or non-frail, which hinders adequate identification
Marco Túlio Gualberto Cintra, Felipe Ferreira Guimarães, Cislene Teixeira de Souza, Fernanda Silva Trindade Luz, Érica Dias Murta, Maria Aparecida Camargos Bicalho, Edgar Nunes de Moraes   +6 more
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