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Physical Frailty Assessment in Older Women: Can Simplification Be Achieved Without Loss of Syndrome Measurement Validity?
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Jun 2016
Xue Qian-Li, Tian Jing, Fried Linda P, Kalyani Rita R, Varadhan Ravi, Walston Jeremy D, Bandeen-Roche Karen
Abstract excerpt
Different phenotypes have increasingly been used as tools for clinical characterization of frailty among older adults. Although there have been studies about the comparability and effectiveness of various simplifications and approximations of existing frailty phenotypes for risk prediction, there have been no studies in which investigators evaluated the stability of the clinical characterization achieved. In the...
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