The prognostic fingerprint of quality of life in older inpatients
Heeß, A.; Meyer, A.M.; Becker, I.; Noetzel, N.; Verleysdonk, J.; Rarek, M.; Benzing, T.; Polidori, M.C. · Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2021 · Heft 1 · S. 38 bis 43
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Zusammenfassung
The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) provides essential information about older hospitalized patients but is either not systematically adopted or not adopted at all in clinical routine. As a consequence, critical factors influencing patients’ trajectories, like personal resources (geriatric resources, GR), geriatric syndromes (GS), health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and multidimensional prognosis often escape routine diagnostics. To investigate the association between HRQoL and GR/GS as well as its prognostic signature. In this study 165 inpatients older than 65 years admitted to an internal medicine…
