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Predicting factors associated with frailty in aged patients with bone-arthrosis pain in the clinic.
The Physician and sportsmedicine - 1 Nov 2016
Li Bao-Lin, Li Wei, Bi Jia-Qi, Meng Qing-Gang, Fei Jian-Feng
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OBJECTIVES: To identify frail and pre-frail patients in a group of patients older than 60 years. METHODS: The phenotype model of Fried's method was used to identify frailty and pre-frailty in total of 78 participants. Cognitive ability and psychosocial function tests were also given to 59 of the 78 patients. RESULTS: Prevalence of frailty and pre-frailty was 14.1% (11/78) and 46.2% (36/78), respectively. Of the 5...
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