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Implementation of grip strength measurement in medicine for older people wards as part of routine admission assessment: identifying facilitators and barriers using a theory-led intervention

BACKGROUND: Low grip strength in older inpatients is associated with poor healthcare outcomes including longer length of stay and mortality. Measuring grip strength is simple and inexpensive. However, it is not routinely used in clinical practice. We aimed to evaluate the implementation of grip stre...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC Geriatr
Hauptverfasser: Ibrahim, Kinda, May, Carl R., Patel, Harnish P., Baxter, Mark, Sayer, Avan A., Roberts, Helen C.
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2018
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865333/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29566673
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0768-5
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