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The assessment of sarcopenia and the frailty phenotype in the outpatient care of older people: implementation and typical values obtained from the Newcastle SarcScreen project.
European geriatric medicine - 1 Aug 2022
Dodds R M, Heslop P, Jaffar J, Davies K, Noble J M, Shaw F E, Witham M D, Sayer A A
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PURPOSE: Sarcopenia and the frailty phenotype both indicate older adults at risk of adverse health outcomes and yet are not widely assessed in practice. We developed the Newcastle SarcScreen to enable assessment of these two ageing syndromes during clinical care. In the setting of our Older People's Medicine Day Unit, our aims were to describe the implementation of the SarcScreen and to examine the typical values...
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