Sentence examples for a frail population from inspiring English sources

Elderly persons with headache are a frail population with high comorbidity and multiple drug therapies that can represent a challenge for physicians involved in pain management.

To determine if troponin I and NT-proBNP were predictors of 6-month mortality after emergency orthopedic-geriatric surgery in a frail population.

The reasons behind the exceptionally high case-fatality rate in the 1918 influenza pandemic have been associated to the virus pathogenesis [10] [12], the absence of antibiotics to treat secondary bacteremia infections [13], [14] and to a debilitated health care system, exhausted by a frail population found at the end of World War I [3].

Clearly, such a highly invasive sampling approach would not be practical in a frail population.

EDPLH patients constitute a frail population with a high risk of dying.

The observed effects were small to medium, yet, present in a frail population and over a timeframe of 12-months.

We hypothesize that dose reductions in older patients were done low-threshold compared to younger patients, to avoid clinical risks in a frailer population.

These residents could also represent a frailer population having more nonspecific symptoms, and also being more prone to infections, and consequently more antibiotic prescriptions.

The recruitment of participants is likely to be difficult because it is a challenging subject for a very frail population (older adults, visually impaired and symptoms of depression and/or anxiety).

They were a predominantly frail population – 11% housebound, more than a third severely cognitively impaired, 2/3 with difficulty in at least two basic activities of daily living, 4/5 affected by at least five health conditions, most unable to climb stairs and only a fifth still able to walk around their local neighbourhood.

Because of this heterogeneity, it is difficult to draw a conclusion about the single best program to apply for a specific frail population.