Frailty assessed by administrative tools and mortality in patients with pneumonia admitted to the hospital and ICU in Wales

Abstract The ideal method of identifying frailty is uncertain, and data on long-term outcomes is relatively limited. We examined frailty indices derived from population-scale linked data on Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and hospitalised non-ICU patients with pneumonia to elucidate the influence of frail...

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Main Authors: Tamas Szakmany, Joe Hollinghurst, Richard Pugh, Ashley Akbari, Rowena Griffiths, Rowena Bailey, Ronan A. Lyons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92874-w

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