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A reliable measure of frailty for a community dwelling older population
BACKGROUND: Frailty remains an elusive concept despite many efforts to define and measure it. The difficulty in translating the clinical profile of frail elderly people into a quantifiable assessment tool is due to the complex and heterogeneous nature of their health problems. Viewing frailty as a &...
Autores principales: | Kamaruzzaman, Shahrul, Ploubidis, George B, Fletcher, Astrid, Ebrahim, Shah |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21029450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-8-123 |
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