The prevalence and health consequences of frailty in a population-based older home care cohort: a comparison of different measures

BACKGROUND: Evaluating different approaches to identifying frail home care clients at heightened risk for adverse health outcomes is an important but understudied area. Our objectives were to determine the prevalence and correlates of frailty (as operationally defined by three measures) in a home ca...

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Autores principales: Campitelli, Michael A., Bronskill, Susan E., Hogan, David B., Diong, Christina, Amuah, Joseph E., Gill, Sudeep, Seitz, Dallas, Thavorn, Kednapa, Wodchis, Walter P., Maxwell, Colleen J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27388294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0309-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937594/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27388294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0309-z

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