Frailty in the ICU: what are we doing with all this information?

Akshay Shah¹, Owen Gustafson^{2

3}, Claire Swarbrick⁴, Elizabeth King^{2

3}, Kunal Shah⁵

Affiliations

¹ Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. akshay.shah@linacre.ox.ac.uk.
² Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
³ Oxford Allied Health Professions Research and Innovation Unit, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.
⁵ Acute General Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.

Akshay Shah et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Sep.

. 2022 Sep;48(9):1258-1259.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06787-x. Epub 2022 Jun 29.

Akshay Shah¹, Owen Gustafson^{2

3}, Claire Swarbrick⁴, Elizabeth King^{2

3}, Kunal Shah⁵

¹ Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. akshay.shah@linacre.ox.ac.uk.
² Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
³ Oxford Allied Health Professions Research and Innovation Unit, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK.
⁴ Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK.
⁵ Acute General Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.

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Comment in

Frailty in the ICU: information is the required first step.
Darvall JN, Bellomo R, Bailey M, Young PJ, Pilcher D. Darvall JN, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Sep;48(9):1260-1261. doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06837-4. Epub 2022 Aug 8. Intensive Care Med. 2022. PMID: 35939094 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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