Letter to the Editor: Covid-19 and the Challenges of Frailty Screening in Older Adults.

What it found

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Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Diagnostic Accuracy of Frailty Screening Instruments Validated for Use among Older Adults Attending Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
   Pooled it
2. Frailty in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19: The Lessons Learned.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024
   Review
3. Frailty Screening in the Emergency Department: Comparing the Variable Indicative of Placement Risk, Clinical Frailty Scale and PRISMA-7.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
   Article
4. Scoring the Clinical Frailty Scale in the Emergency Department: The Home FIRsT Experience.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2022
   Article
5. The Experience of COVID-19 Visitor Restrictions among Families of People Living in Long-Term Residential Care Facilities during the First Wave of the Pandemic in Ireland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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6. Senior-COVID-Rea Cohort Study: A Geriatric Prediction Model of 30-day Mortality in Patients Aged over 60 Years in ICU for Severe COVID-19.Aging and disease · 2022
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7. The Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinimetric Properties of Screening Instruments to Identify Frail Older Adults Attending Emergency Departments: A Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
   Article
8. Letter to the Editor: Comparison of Risk-Prediction Instruments in Frail Older Patients Diagnosed with COVID-19.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2022
   Article
9. Letter to the Editor: Frailty Status and Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2022
   Article
10. Risk factors associated with day-30 mortality in patients over 60 years old admitted in ICU for severe COVID-19: the Senior-COVID-Rea Multicentre Survey protocol.BMJ open · 2021
    Article
11. The role of Frailty on Adverse Outcomes Among Older Patients with COVID-19.The Journal of infection · 2020
    Article
12. The effectiveness of intermediate care including transitional care interventions on function, healthcare utilisation and costs: a scoping review.European geriatric medicine · 2020
    Article
13. The Clinical Frailty Scale: Estimating the Prevalence of Frailty in Older Patients Hospitalised with COVID-19. The COPE Study.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Article
14. The Importance of Taking a Patient-Centered, Community-Based Approach to Preventing and Managing Frailty: A Public Health Perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2020
    Review

Corrections and comments

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  Geriatric Syndromes and SARS-Cov-2: More than Just Being Old.

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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