"These findings indicate that frailty is a strong independent predictor for adverse in-patient outcomes in hospitalized CML patients . . . Frailty not only poses greater risk for in-hospital death in ...

Study findings demonstrate the pivotal role of patient-reported outcomes in identifying frailty among individuals experiencing acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team examined the relationship between frailty and health-related hope and identified specific frailty domains affecting health-related hope in patients ...

Physical frailty, more than chronological age, is associated with an increased risk for complications after common ambulatory surgery in older adults, a study has shown. A retrospective analysis of ...

Frailty manifests differently by age among patients who’ve experienced acute MI, a population-based study shows. While it is consistently linked to worse outcomes, people younger than 55 feel the ...

Brea C. Lipe, MD, highlights considerations for frail patients when treating for MM. Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA: One of the things we’ve talked a lot about is [that] multiple myeloma might be a ...

Frailty increases the risk of bleeding by more than 50% in patients with acute MI undergoing PCI, a new study suggests. The researchers say more efforts are needed to use bleeding-reduction strategies ...

A substantial proportion of patients hospitalised with chronic heart failure (HF) were at risk for malnutrition, which was associated with elevated odds of frailty — and frailty, in turn, was linked ...

Older patients who have surgery are not being screened to assess how frail they are in the majority of UK hospitals, a study suggests. Frail people are more likely to stay longer in hospital after an ...

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