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Standard laboratory tests to identify older adults at increased risk of death
BACKGROUND: Older adults are at an increased risk of death, but not all people of the same age have the same risk. Many methods identify frail people (that is, those at increased risk) but these often require time-consuming interactions with health care providers. We evaluated whether standard labor...
Autores principales: | Howlett, Susan E, Rockwood, Michael RH, Mitnitski, Arnold, Rockwood, Kenneth |
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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/PMC4190374/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25288274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0171-9 |
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