Baseline Functional Status and One-year Mortality After Hospital Admission in Elderly Patients: a prospective cohort study

Baseline Functional Status and One-year Mortality After Hospital Admission in Elderly Patients: a prospective cohort study

Introduction: Hospitalization represents a major factor that may precipitate the loss of functional status and the cascade into dependence. The main objective of our study was to determine the effect of functional status measured before hospital admission on survival at one year after hospitalizati...

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Main Authors: Victoria Sáenz, Nicolas Zuljevic, Cristina Elizondo, Iñaki Martin Lesende, Diego Caruso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2020-08-01
Series:Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Córdoba
Subjects:
activities of daily living
frailty
disable persons
mortality
aged
Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/med/article/view/28771

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