Four screening instruments for frailty in older patients with and without cancer: a diagnostic study

BACKGROUND: Frailty in older patients might influence treatment decisions. Frailty can be determined using a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), but this is time-consuming and expensive. Therefore we assessed the diagnostic value of four shorter screening instruments. METHODS: We tested the ab...

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Autores principales: Smets, Ineke HGJ, Kempen, Gertrudis IJM, Janssen-Heijnen, Maryska LG, Deckx, Laura, Buntinx, Frank JVM, van den Akker, Marjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3938903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24571290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-26

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3938903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24571290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-26

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