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The Effects of Frailty in Patients Undergoing Elective Cardiac Surgery

Friday, April 29, 2016

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Source Name: Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Source URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jocs.12699/abstract

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Niv Ad, Sari D. Holmes, Linda Halpin, R.N., Deborah J. Shuman, Casey E. Miller, Deborah Lamont

This article examined the impact of gait speed, as a marker of frailty, on surgical outcomes in a group of 167 cardiac patients aged 65 years or older. The authors concluded that there was no relation between gait speed and outcome.

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