Frailty and risk of re-hospitalisation and mortality for aged care residents following a fall injury hospitalisation.

CONCLUSIONS: Frailty is an important prognostic factor associated with readmission for residents of aged care hospitalised for a fall injury. Frailty screening could assist to identify people at a high risk of re-hospitalisation following a fall injury.
PMID: 32881277 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Australasian Journal on Ageing - September 2, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Mitchell R, Ting HP, Draper B, Close J, Harvey L, Brodaty H, Driscoll TR, Braithwaite J Tags: Australas J Ageing Source Type: research