(HealthDay)—A claims-based frailty index can improve current Medicare cost prediction for patients with different levels of frailty, according to a study published online April 7 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Apr 8, 2020
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Patients with atrial fibrillation are at risk of forming clots that can migrate to the brain and cause dangerous strokes; these can be prevented by chronic administration of blood-thinning drugs (anticoagulants). Introduced ...
Dec 20, 2021
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Norway said Monday no link had been established between Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine and post-vaccination deaths in the country, but recommended doctors consider the overall health of the most frail before giving them ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Globally, human society is aging. A side-effect of this is that age-related disorders, such as frailty, are becoming increasingly common. Frailty includes not only physical disabilities, but also a decline in cognitive function ...
Apr 6, 2020
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There is a tremendous disparity between the need for home-based medical care and the number of frail seniors actually receiving it, a new study finds. In many rural areas, the problem is so great that the researchers label ...
Nov 12, 2018
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It's estimated that around 25% of patients who have a cardiac arrest and receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a normal hospital setting will survive. Those odds shoot up to 50% for patients who receive CPR during ...
Jul 3, 2023
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European experts have called for frail patients to have tailored cardiac rehabilitation programmes in a paper published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
Dec 12, 2016
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Frailty, a decline in function and resistance to short-term stress that typically occurs in old age, is linked to more complications after an operation among adults of all ages, according to researchers of a large new study ...
Mar 1, 2019
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An accurate tool that is readily available could be used to predict whether frail patients are likely to survive intensive cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, according to researchers from the University of Surrey.
Jun 26, 2023
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A recent study published in Clinical Nutrition shows that low BMI and malnutrition are risk factors for in-hospital mortality in geriatric COVID-19 patients. The study was performed at Karolinska Institutet in collaboration ...
Sep 21, 2021
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