The hospital frailty risk score is of limited value in intensive care unit patients

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
² Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
³ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Christian.Jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.

Comment

Raphael Romano Bruno et al. Crit Care. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 2;23(1):239.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-019-2520-8.

¹ Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
² Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
³ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Christian.Jung@med.uni-duesseldorf.de.

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Keywords: Assessment; Frailty; Intensive care; Outcome mortality; Outcome non-mortality.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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