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Frailty and unplanned admissions to the intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study in the UK

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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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PJW reports significant grants from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), UK and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, during the conduct of the study. PJW reports previous personal fees from Sensyne Health and hold shares in the company. SG is funded by a NIHR Doctoral Fellowship (DRF-2016-09-073).

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Redfern, O.C., Harford, M., Gerry, S. et al. Frailty and unplanned admissions to the intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study in the UK. Intensive Care Med 46, 1512–1513 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-06020-7

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