Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS): A Rapid and Robust Indicator of Patient Vulnerability after Heart Failure (IMAGE)

Juntendo University Research Promotion Center

Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS): A Rapid and Robust Indicator of Patient Vulnerability after Heart Failure

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Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next 2 years.

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Dr. Taisuke Nakade from Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

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