Older people's goals of care in relation to frailty status-the COOP-study.

Veerle M G T H van der KleiYvonne M DrewesBas F M van RaaijMaaike D W van DalsenAnneke G JulienJan FestenHarmke Polinder-BosSimon Pieter MooijaartJacobijn GusseklooFrederiek van den Bosnull null

Published in: Age and ageing (2024)

Preferred goals of care are not related to frailty status, while the importance ascribed to individual goals is slightly lower with higher frailty status. Future research should prioritise outcomes related to the shared goals of fit, mildly frail and severely frail older people to improve personalised medicine for older patients.

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