#Frailty

Dan McIsaac

mcisaac_d

1/Do you study older surgical patients and #frailty using #NSQIP data? Our new study in @IARS_Journals shows that your choice #frailty instrument really matters. https://bit.ly/2KcnmU1 @SylvieAucoin @OttAnesthesia 2/ using Bayesian

Kenneth Rockwood

Krockdoc

1/4 Clinical Frailty Scale at Emergency Department triage https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33172880/ Good study, cautionary tale, and a useful spur to do more, especially with the #frailty stakes in COVID-19. Shrier et al/

Ben Davies

bendavies_

BMA conference on justice/fairness in COVID: Jonathan Montgomery speaking about the need for national guidance on resource allocation, problem of multiple/conflicting guidelines. Suggests need for 'one guidance to rule them

Clark DuMontier

cdumonti

1/4 With a lot of great #geriheme coming out of #ASH2020, a couple of informative, recently-published articles from colleagues in other areas of aging research to highlight... 2/4 Older adults

Kenneth Rockwood

Krockdoc

Great question. Most key trials preceded the Clinical Frailty Scale. @GrahamEllis247 will know best, but here’s my read. (A 7-part thread; forgive me.) Back in the late ‘70s (when I

Dr Sarah Mercer

pd2ot

I chose occupational therapy because I used to think it was rubbish... As a service user I had some poor experiences of occupational therapy. #ChooseOT #OTWeek2020 Some of my

Jacob de Wolff

jfdwolff

Might as well have my rant. Do not EVER on my acute take record the words "lives with family" in the medical record. You might as well have written that

Corona Reduit

CoronaReduit

1/n#Frailty is the MAIN #Covid19 riskSwedish per capita excess mortality over 70 is almost EXCLUSIVELY in nursing homes ("särskilt boende") and home care ("hemtjänst"). Almost NO excess in no care

Sallyanne Wilson

SalWilson111

Unintended consequences of pandemic just got personal! Grandad in his 90's worked hard to remain independent at home. Shielding resulted in huge deconditioning & functional decline. Fall = #NOF. This

Buzz Hollander MD

buzzhollandermd

Our first real world data on vaccine effectiveness in the US is here, complements of the Mayo Clinic.Spoiler alert: it is good!It's not a randomized trial, of course;and the cohort

Crisis

crisis_uk

We've been asked why we're calling on Westminster to include people who are homeless in the priority groups for vaccinations. The Govt has declared that their aim is to protect

Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan

crageshri

Fantastic to be a part of this collaboration between sexual health/HIV & ICU with @vanessa_apea @YizeWan @Zudin_P @rupert_pearse @profchloeorkin & @JohnProwle showing the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black &

Vici Wreford-Sinnott

viciws

#WeShallNotBeRemoved We won't ever know the true figures of deaths of Disabled people in this pandemic - not important enough to test - the 'shocking' figures of disabled peoples' deaths

Ramona Grigg (@🏡)

RamonaGrigg

Thread: So now McDonalds is trending because a female cop, exhausted and hungry, used her cell phone to vent, seemingly about the service, but it was far deeper than that.

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lana_delboy

i think a lot of people who deny the severity of the second wave have never really experienced hardship before. i think they have never before really had their freedoms

Jody David Armour

NiggaTheory

I know the temptation here is to tell Kyle Rittenhouse, “Cry me a river, stop sniveling for sympathy” and “why aren’t you writing about the tears shed by the families

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