Without carefully crafted policies and systems, many people with serious health conditions could lose coverage despite being eligible. Fortunately, there are concrete steps states can take that can ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Electronic frailty index helped predict risk for poor outcomes after chemotherapy in frail patients with breast, ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...
This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The proportion of patients with potentially inappropriate medications was 38% overall and 56.1% in patients with moderate to severe frailty. Use of potentially inappropriate medications among cancer ...
A retrospective cohort study found that frailty was prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and that the adverse effects could include end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and mortality. An ...
Age-associated cumulative decline across physiologic systems results in a diminished resistance to stressors, including cancer and its treatment, creating a vulnerable state known as frailty. Frailty ...
Frailty after kidney transplantation is a harbinger for death and other major adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients. The hospital frailty risk score (HFRS) predicts graft failure, severe infection ...
Age-associated cumulative decline across physiologic systems results in a diminished resistance to stressors, including cancer and its treatment, creating a vulnerable state known as frailty. Frailty ...
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