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. 2024 Nov 13:11:1466232.
doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2024.1466232. eCollection 2024.

Commentary: Prioritizing patients for hip fracture surgery: the role of frailty and cardiac risk

Patrizia Floris  1 , Martina Manna  2 , Valentina Spedale  2 , Justin S Brathwaite  3 , Alessio Greco  4 , Michela Passamonte  1 , Francesco De Filippi  5 , Paolo Mazzola  2   6   7
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Commentary: Prioritizing patients for hip fracture surgery: the role of frailty and cardiac risk

Patrizia Floris et al. Front Surg. .
No abstract available

Keywords: frailty; geriatric assessment; hip fracture (HFr); orthogeriatric care; orthogeriatric care program.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision.

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