A comparison of two approaches to measuring frailty in elderly people.

Background: Many definitions of frailty exist, but few have been directly compared. We compared the relationship between a definition of frailty based on a specific phenotype with one based on an index of deficit accumulation.Methods: The data come from all 2305 people 70 years old and older who com...

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Publicado en:Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences & Medical Sciences Vol. 62; no. 7; pp. 738 - 744
Autores principales: Rockwood K, Andrew M, Mitnitski A, Rockwood, Kenneth, Andrew, Melissa, Mitnitski, Arnold
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2007
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