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Improving Prediction of Risk of Admission to Long-Term Care or Mortality Among Home Care Users With IDD

BACKGROUND: Frailty is an established predictor of admission into long-term care (LTC) and mortality in the elderly population. Assessment of frailty among adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) using a generic frailty marker may not be as predictive, as some lifelong disabili...

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Autores principales: Ouellette-Kuntz, Hélène, Stankiewicz, Elizabeth, McIsaac, Michael, Martin, Lynn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Geriatrics Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30595781
http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.21.319