COVID-19 is not over and age is not enough: Using frailty for prognostication in hospitalized patients.

Márlon Juliano Romero AlibertiClaudia SzlejfVivian I Avelino-SilvaClaudia Kimie SuemotoDaniel ApolinarioMurilo Bacchini DiasFlavia Barreto GarcezCarolina B TrindadeJosé Renato das Graças AmaralLeonardo Rabelo de MeloRenata Cunha de AguiarPaulo Henrique Lazzaris CoelhoNaira Hossepian Salles de Lima HojaijMarcos Daniel Cabral SaraivaNatalia Oliveira Trajano da SilvaWilson Jacob-FilhoThiago J Avelino-Silvanull null

Published in: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2021)

Our results encourage the use of frailty, alongside measures of acute morbidity, to guide clinicians in prognostication and resource allocation in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

Keyphrases

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extracorporeal membrane oxygenation