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Redefining Geriatric Preoperative Assessment Using Frailty, Disability and Co-Morbidity

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Simple frailty score predicts postoperative complications across surgical specialties

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Frailty Predicts Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates

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Superiority of Frailty Over Age in Predicting Outcomes Among Geriatric Trauma Patients

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Frailty is associated with postoperative complications in older adults with medical problems

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Frailty as a Novel Predictor of Mortality and Hospitalization in Individuals of All Ages Undergoing Hemodialysis

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Cumulative deficits better characterize susceptibility to death in elderly people than phenotypic frailty: lessons from the Cardiovascular Health Study

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Accumulated Frailty Characteristics Predict Postoperative Discharge Institutionalization in the Geriatric Patient

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