Background Pre-injury frailty is associated with adverse in-hospital outcomes in older
trauma patients, but the association with longer term survival and recovery is unclear. We …

Objective: Older adults make up a rapidly increasing proportion of motor vehicle occupants
and previous studies have demonstrated that this population is more susceptible to …

Purpose Chronic critical illness after trauma injury has not been fully evaluated, and there is
little evidence in this regard. We aim to describe the prevalence and risk factors of chronic …

Background: The geriatric trauma population is growing and fraught with poor physiological
response to injury and high mortality rates. Our primary hypothesis analyzed how …

Background We modified our treatment algorithm for proximal humeral fractures in elderly
patients in 2013 to a more conservative approach avoiding locking plates. This study …

Background Routine frailty assessment has emerged recently in the surgical literature and is
an important prognostication and risk stratification tool. The aim of our study was to review …

Objectives To determine functional changes and factors affecting 180-day functional
prognosis among older patients attending a hospital emergency department (ED) after a fall …

Background Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in trauma patients. However, the
spectrum of physiologic deficits, once a patient is identified as frail, is unknown. The aim of …

Background The geriatric population, which constitutes ten percent of the world's population
as of 2021, has been increasingly involved in traumatic conditions including road traffic …

Purpose The purpose of the current study is to determine the relation of frailty syndrome to
acoustic measures of voice quality and voice-related handicap. Methods Seventy-three …