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Title
Research Suggests Importance of Assessing Patients' Frailty, Pre-Surgery.
Abstract
The article discusses a study published in "The Annals of Thoracic Surgery" in October 2016 which found that patients who are referred for surgery are often frail or at risk of frailty. Topics covered include how frailty was screened in the study, characteristics of frail patients according to the literature on frailty, and benefits to screening patients for frailty.