Measuring frailty in clinical practice: a comparison of physical frailty assessment methods in a geriatric out-patient clinic

BACKGROUND: The objectives of this study were to determine: 1) the prevalence of frailty using Fried’s phenotype method and the Short Performance Physical Battery (SPPB), 2) agreement between frailty assessment methods, 3) the feasibility of assessing frailty using Fried’s phenotype method and the S...

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Autores principales: Pritchard, J. M., Kennedy, C. C., Karampatos, S., Ioannidis, G., Misiaszek, B., Marr, S., Patterson, C., Woo, T., Papaioannou, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5683585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29132301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-017-0623-0

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