Zulfiqar Frailty Scale: Overview, Stakes, and Possibilities

Very few frailty scales are used by general practitioners, as they are time consuming and cumbersome. We developed a frailty screening tool for use in primary care, referred to as the Zulfiqar Frailty Scale (ZFS). This scale was tested in multiple general practitioners’ offices in France, and these...

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Autores principales: Zulfiqar, Abrar-Ahmad, Dembélé, Ibrahima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8707667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34940285
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines8120073
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description Very few frailty scales are used by general practitioners, as they are time consuming and cumbersome. We developed a frailty screening tool for use in primary care, referred to as the Zulfiqar Frailty Scale (ZFS). This scale was tested in multiple general practitioners’ offices in France, and these studies were published. In this paper, we offer a summary of these results.
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spelling pubmed-87076672021-12-25 Zulfiqar Frailty Scale: Overview, Stakes, and Possibilities Zulfiqar, Abrar-Ahmad Dembélé, Ibrahima Medicines (Basel) Brief Report Very few frailty scales are used by general practitioners, as they are time consuming and cumbersome. We developed a frailty screening tool for use in primary care, referred to as the Zulfiqar Frailty Scale (ZFS). This scale was tested in multiple general practitioners’ offices in France, and these studies were published. In this paper, we offer a summary of these results. MDPI 2021-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8707667/ /pubmed/34940285 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines8120073 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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