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Predictive Value of Frailty Indices for Adverse Outcomes in Older Adults.
Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion - 1 Jan 2000
Pérez-Zepeda Mario Ulises, Cesari Matteo, García-Peña Carmen
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BACKGROUND: There are two widely used tools to classify frailty in older adults: the frailty phenotype and the frailty index. Both have been validated for prediction of adverse outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of different frailty indices to predict a number of adverse outcomes (falls, disability, and mortality) by adding deficits in a fixed sequence (with the first five deficits as in the frailty...
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