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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Sancaktepe Şehit Prof Dr. İlhan Varank Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Palyatif Bakim Ünitesi Sancaktepe, Namık Kemal Cad. No: 54, Istanbul, Turkey

    Umut Safer

  2. Department of Paliative Care, Sancaktepe Prof. Dr. İlhan Varank Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Umut Safer

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Gulhane Faculty of Medicine, University Health Sciences Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

    Ilker Tasci

  4. Internal Medicine Clinic, Gulhane Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Ilker Tasci

  5. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sancaktepe Prof. Dr. İlhan Varank Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Vildan Binay Safer

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Safer, U., Tasci, I. & Binay Safer, V. Comment on “The psoas muscle index as a predictor of mortality and morbidity of geriatric trauma patients: experience of a major trauma center in Kobe.”. Surg Today 51, 327–328 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-020-02013-7

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