Geriatric assessment is superior to oncologists’ clinical judgement in identifying frailty

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a syndrome associated with increased vulnerability and an important predictor of outcomes in older cancer patients. Systematic assessments to identify frailty are seldom applied, and oncologists’ ability to identify frailty is scarcely investigated. METHODS: We compared oncolo...

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Autores principales: Kirkhus, Lene, Šaltytė Benth, Jūratė, Rostoft, Siri, Grønberg, Bjørn Henning, Hjermstad, Marianne J, Selbæk, Geir, Wyller, Torgeir B, Harneshaug, Magnus, Jordhøy, Marit S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Materias:
Clinical Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5558687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28664916
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2017.202

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5558687/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28664916
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2017.202

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