One minute to assess frailty, but what should we do next?

Affiliations

¹ Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent, UK.
² School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Kent, UK. j.g.hopker@kent.ac.uk.

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K Richardson et al. Anaesthesia. 2016 Jun.

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. 2016 Jun;71(6):622-6.

doi: 10.1111/anae.13321. Epub 2016 Mar 28.

¹ Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medway Maritime Hospital, Kent, UK.
² School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Kent, UK. j.g.hopker@kent.ac.uk.

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Keywords: clinical impression; mortality; pre-operative; prehabilitation.

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