For example, what levels of treatments were justified for frail, terminal or simply very old patients.

Hip fractures are very dangerous episodes especially for elderly and frail patients.

Many frail elderly patients need help with meals but do not receive it, and their health declines, the study said.

An infection on top of another medical condition can prove fatal to sick, frail patients.

Medical school introduces students to the elderly primarily as frail, acutely ill patients in hospitals.

Overall, open heart surgery has a mortality rate of about 5 percent, but in frail patients the rate can be much higher.

An evaluation of an alternative to long-stay hospital care for frail elderly patients: 1.

Over all, the mortality rates for open heart surgery are about 5 percent, but for frail patients the risk can be much higher.

In frail elderly patients, he said, such wholesale, abrupt changes are potentially dangerous.

In any case it might not do much good for frail foreign patients to come for treatment.