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Development, Construct Validity, and Predictive Validity of a Continuous Frailty Scale: Results From 2 Large US Cohorts.
American journal of epidemiology - 1 Aug 2018
Wu Chenkai, Geldhof G John, Xue Qian-Li, Kim Dae H, Newman Anne B, Odden Michelle C
Abstract excerpt
Frailty is an age-related clinical syndrome of decreased resilience to stressors. Among numerous assessments of frailty, the frailty phenotype (FP) scale proposed by Fried et al. has been the most widely used. We aimed to develop a continuous frailty scale that could overcome limitations facing the categorical FP scale and to evaluate its construct validity, predictive validity, and measurement properties. Data...
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