Geriatric risk assessment in surgery: Keeping it simple

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1138-1139

  Zenilman, Michael E ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALGORITHM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALLING; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTION TEST; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; KATZ ACTIVITY OF DAILY LIVING INDEX; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINI COG TEST; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGIC AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE FOR ENUMERATION OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL; TIMED UP AND GO;

EID: 84890648862     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.2765     Document Type: Note

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