We have read the article by Edward Chong et al
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with great interest. In their article, the authors have studied to determine the
utility of identifying frailty status in predicting incident urinary incontinence
(UI) and to establish whether UI is an independent predictor of mortality within 12 months
of an acute hospital admission among older adults. They report that underlying UI,
irrespective of frailty status, independently increased the risk of mortality, even
up to 12 months following hospitalization.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Published online: August 22, 2018
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