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Frailty assessment in very old intensive care patients: the Hospital Frailty Risk Score answers another question

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This publication presents independent research supported by the Health Innovation Challenge Fund (HICF-R9-524 and WT-103703/Z/14/Z), a parallel funding partnership between the Department of Health and Wellcome Trust. PW is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). SG is supported by a NIHR Doctoral Fellowship (DRF-2016-09-073). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health or the Wellcome Trust.

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  1. Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Oliver C. Redfern, Mirae Harford & Peter J. Watkinson

  2. Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Stephen Gerry

  3. Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    David Prytherch

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PW reports significant grants from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), UK and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford. PW reports modest grants and personal fees from Sensyne Health, outside the submitted work. PW works part-time for Sensyne Health and hold shares in the company.

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Redfern, O.C., Harford, M., Gerry, S. et al. Frailty assessment in very old intensive care patients: the Hospital Frailty Risk Score answers another question. Intensive Care Med 46, 1516–1517 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06107-1

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