Identifying frailty in primary care: a qualitative description of family physicians’ gestalt impressions of their older adult patients

BACKGROUND: Many tools exist to guide family physicians’ impressions about frailty status of older adults, but no single tool, instrument, or set of criteria has emerged as most useful. The role of physicians’ subjective impressions in frailty decisions has not been studied. This study explores how...

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Autores principales: Korenvain, Clara, Famiyeh, Ida-Maisie, Dunn, Sheila, Whitehead, Cynthia R., Rochon, Paula A., McCarthy, Lisa M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29759070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-018-0743-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29759070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-018-0743-4

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