A Frailty Instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

BACKGROUND: A frailty paradigm would be useful in primary care to identify older people at risk, but appropriate metrics at that level are lacking. We created and validated a simple instrument for frailty screening in Europeans aged ≥50. Our study is based on the first wave of the Survey of Health,...

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Main Authors: Romero-Ortuno, Roman, Walsh, Cathal D, Lawlor, Brian A, Kenny, Rose Anne
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939541/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20731877
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-10-57
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