Frailty and length of stay in older adults with blunt injury in a national multicentre prospective cohort study.

Timothy Xin Zhong TanNivedita V NadkarniWei Chong ChuaLynette Ma LooPhilip Tsau Choong IauArron Seng Hock AngJerry Tiong Thye GooKim Chai ChanRahul MalhotraMarcus Eng Hock OngDavid Bruce MatcharDennis Chuen Chai SeowHai V NguyenYee Sien NgAngelique ChanTing-Hway Wong

Published in: PloS one (2021)

Patients sustaining moderate or severe injury after low falls are more likely to be frail compared to patients injured after higher-velocity mechanisms. However, this did not translate into longer adjusted LOS in hospital at index admission.

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