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Screening for frailty in primary care: a systematic review of the psychometric properties of the frailty index in community-dwelling older people

BACKGROUND: To better accommodate for the complex care needs of frail, older people, general practitioners must be capable of easily identifying frailty in daily clinical practice, for example, by using the frailty index (FI). To explore whether the FI is a valid and adequate screening instrument fo...

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Autores principales: Drubbel, Irene, Numans, Mattijs E, Kranenburg, Guido, Bleijenberg, Nienke, de Wit, Niek J, Schuurmans, Marieke J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3946826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24597624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-27