The feasibility of assessing frailty and sarcopenia in hospitalised older people: a comparison of commonly used tools

BACKGROUND: Frailty and sarcopenia are common amongst hospitalised older people and associated with poor healthcare outcomes. Widely recognised tools for their identification are the Fried Frailty Phenotype, its self-report version the FRAIL Scale, and the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Old...

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Autores principales: Ibrahim, Kinda, Howson, Fiona F. A., Culliford, David J., Sayer, Avan A., Roberts, Helen C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6377779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30770722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1053-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6377779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30770722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1053-y

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