Commentary: Prioritizing patients for hip fracture surgery: the role of frailty and cardiac risk

Front Surg. 2024 Nov 13:11:1466232. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2024.1466232. eCollection 2024.

¹ ASST Valtellina e Alto Lario, Morbegno Hospital, Morbegno, Italy.
² School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy.
³ Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
⁴ Struttura Complessa Continuità Clinico-Assistenziale, Dipartimento di Fragilità, ASST Lecco, Lecco, Italy.
⁵ Società Italiana di Geriatria Ospedale e Territorio (SIGOT), Sezione Lombardia, Milano, Italy.
⁶ Acute Geriatrics Unit, Fondazione IRCCS San Gerardo dei Tintori, Monza, Italy.
⁷ Clinical Neurosciences Research Area, NeuroMI - Milan Center for Neuroscience, Milano, Italy.

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Keywords: frailty; geriatric assessment; hip fracture (HFr); orthogeriatric care; orthogeriatric care program.

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