AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

The accurate estimation of age is an important area in geriatric research. The lack of suitable records in developing countries coupled with illiteracy makes this process difficult. Fifty patients were studied in order to assess their age by means of a checklist which contained significant personal...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, T.N., Suresh, T.R., Rajkumar, S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776172
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description The accurate estimation of age is an important area in geriatric research. The lack of suitable records in developing countries coupled with illiteracy makes this process difficult. Fifty patients were studied in order to assess their age by means of a checklist which contained significant personal and historical events. The average patient was found to under-report his age by three years.
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spelling pubmed-29725722011-07-20 AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Srinivasan, T.N. Suresh, T.R. Rajkumar, S. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The accurate estimation of age is an important area in geriatric research. The lack of suitable records in developing countries coupled with illiteracy makes this process difficult. Fifty patients were studied in order to assess their age by means of a checklist which contained significant personal and historical events. The average patient was found to under-report his age by three years. Medknow Publications 1993 /pmc/articles/PMC2972572/ /pubmed/21776172 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_full AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_fullStr AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_full_unstemmed AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_short AGE ESTIMATION IN THE ELDERLY: RELEVANCE TO GERIATRIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_sort age estimation in the elderly: relevance to geriatric research in developing countries
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776172
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