OPERA Score – Risk Stratification in Older Adults Admitted to Hospital
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248477 Demographic changes alongside medical advances have resulted in older adults accounting for an increasing proportion of emergency hospital admissions. Current measures of illness severity, limited to physiological parameters, have shortcomings in this cohort, partly due to patient complexity. This study aimed to derive and validate a risk score for acutely unwell older adults which […]