Frailty, identification, treatment, and clinical practice
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Measuring frailty in clinical practice: a comparison of physical frailty assessment methods in a geriatric out-patient clinic
BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to determine: 1) the prevalence of frailty using Fried's phenotype method and the Short Performance Physical Battery (SPPB), 2) agreement between frailty assessment methods, 3) the feasibility of assessing frailty using Fried's phenotype method and the SPPB. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at a geriatric out-patient clinic in Hamil...
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عنوان ژورنال: The journal of nutrition, health & aging
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1279-7707,1760-4788
DOI: 10.1007/s12603-014-0454-z