Early hospital readmission (EHR) after kidney transplantation (KT) is associated with
increased morbidity and higher costs. Registry-based recipient, transplant and center-level
predictors of EHR are limited, and novel predictors are needed. We hypothesized that frailty,
a measure of physiologic reserve initially described and validated in geriatrics and recently
associated with early KT outcomes, might serve as a novel, independent predictor of EHR in
KT recipients of all ages. We measured frailty in 383 KT recipients at Johns Hopkins …

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Am J … Frailty among chronic kidney disease patients on the kidney transplant waiting list: the
sex-frailty paradox. … Transplantation: early hospital readmissions after kidney transplantation. …