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