Association between frailty and short- and long-term outcomes among critically ill patients: A multicentre prospective cohort study

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Bagshaw, Sean M ^a   Stelfox, H Thomas ^c   McDermid, Robert C ^a   Rolfson, Darryl B ^b   Tsuyuki, Ross T ^a   Baig, Nadia ^a   Artiuch, Barbara ^c   Ibrahim, Quazi ^a   Stollery, Daniel E ^a   Rokosh, Ella ^a   Majumdar, Sumit R ^a  

^a Misericordia Community Hospital   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL FRAILTY SCALE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84894218269     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.130639     Document Type: Article

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