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Evaluation of Clinically Meaningful Changes in Measures of Frailty.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 22 May 2020
Jang Il-Young, Jung Hee-Won, Lee Hea Yon, Park Hyungchul, Lee Eunju, Kim Dae Hyun
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BACKGROUND: To determine the clinically meaningful changes and responsiveness of widely used frailty measures. METHODS: We analyzed data from a prospective cohort study of 1,135 community-dwelling older adults who underwent assessments of frailty and health-related quality of life using the EuroQol-5D at baseline and 1 year later. Frailty measures included deficit-accumulation frailty index (FI); frailty...
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