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How frail is frail? A systematic scoping review and synthesis of high impact studies

AIMS: While the frailty index (FI) is a continuous variable, an FI score of 0.25 has construct and predictive validity to categorise community-dwelling older adults as frail or non-frail. Our study aimed to explore which FI categories (FI scores and labels) were being used in high impact studies of...

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Autores principales: Gordon, E. H., Reid, N., Khetani, I. S., Hubbard, R. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34922490
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02671-3