Dapagliflozin efficacious and safe in treating heart failure
1. Dapagliflozin reduced the risk of worsening heart failure or cardiovascular death regardless of frailty status. 2. Dapagliflozin improved quality ...
Tag: frailty
Geriatric assessment and management may reduce adverse events in older cancer patients
1. There were significantly fewer instances of grade 3-5 toxic effects among patients in the intervention group (51%) compared to ...
Impact of frailty on clinical outcomes and resource use following emergency general surgery in the United States
1. Following emergency general surgery procedures, frail patients had poorer clinical outcomes such as higher mortality, non-home discharge rates, and ...
Addition of claims-based frailty index enhances current Medicare cost prediction model
1. In this retrospective study, augmentation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hierarchical Condition Category cost prediction model ...
Nearly half of potentially preventable Medicare spending focused on frail elderly patients
1. High-cost frail elderly persons account for almost half of the potentially preventable Medicare spending. 2. The greatest amount of ...
Increased frailty associated with childhood cancer survivorship
Image: PD Ewing Sarcoma 1. The prevalence of frailty among young adult childhood cancer survivors (CCS) is similar to that ...
Hopkins Frailty Score is best predictor of postoperative complications
Image: PD 1. Intermediately frail or frail patients, as determined by the Hopkins Frailty Score, had more post-op complications. 2. ...
