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The Liver Frailty Index: a model for establishing organ-specific frailty metrics across all solid organ transplantation.

Gabrielle JutrasJennifer C Lai
Published in: Current opinion in organ transplantation (2024)
Creating a standardized framework across all solid-organ transplants, with common principles and organ-specific measurements, would facilitate consistent frailty assessment, standardize the integration of the frailty construct into transplant decision-making, and enable center-level interventions to improve outcomes for patients with end-stage organ disease.
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