Scratching the surface: The burden of frailty in critical care

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 740-742

  McDermid, Robert C ^a   Bagshaw, Sean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROGNOSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; SURVIVOR; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84903302096     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3246-3     Document Type: Editorial

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