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

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Jul 2007

Rockwood Kenneth, Andrew Melissa, Mitnitski Arnold

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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 composed the clinical examination cohort of the second wave of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. We tested...

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PMID: 17634321
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/62.7.738

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