What proportion of older adults in hospital are frail?

Samuel D. Searle; Kenneth Rockwood

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30907-3

What proportion of older adults in hospital are frail?

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1751-1752
Number of pages	2
Journal	The Lancet
Volume	391
Issue number	10132
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30907-3
Publication status	Published - May 5 2018

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SDS declares no competing interests. KR has asserted copyright of the Clinical Frailty Scale through Dalhousie University, which is free for research, educational, and not-for-profit care. KR founded and is President and CSO of DGI Clinical, which has contracts with pharmaceutical companies for outcome measurement and advanced data analytics. He receives operating support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and career support from the Dalhousie Medical Research Fund as Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research.

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General Medicine

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