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Sep 2026
Frailty across Hip arthroplasty pathways: vulnerability domains, outcomes, and implications for care—a narrative review
Background Frailty helps explain why older patients with similar chronological age and comorbidity burdens experience markedly different outcomes after hip arthroplasty. Interpretation is complicated because instruments capture different vulnerabilities and elective primary, revision, and fracture-related arthroplasty...
Fei-Fei Li, Qing-Mei Pan, Yi Tang et al.
· Frontiers in Surgery · 0 citations