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Psychometric properties of multicomponent tools designed to assess frailty in older adults: A systematic review

BACKGROUND: Frailty is widely recognised as a distinct multifactorial clinical syndrome that implies vulnerability. The links between frailty and adverse outcomes such as death and institutionalisation have been widely evidenced. There is currently no gold standard frailty assessment tool; optimizin...

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Autores principales: Sutton, Jennifer L., Gould, Rebecca L., Daley, Stephanie, Coulson, Mark C., Ward, Emma V., Butler, Aine M., Nunn, Stephen P., Howard, Robert J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26927924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0225-2