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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...
Autores principales: | Smets, Ineke HGJ, Kempen, Gertrudis IJM, Janssen-Heijnen, Maryska LG, Deckx, Laura, Buntinx, Frank JVM, van den Akker, Marjan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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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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