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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 &...

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Autores principales: Kamaruzzaman, Shahrul, Ploubidis, George B, Fletcher, Astrid, Ebrahim, Shah
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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