Comparison of 2 Frailty Indexes for Prediction of Falls, Disability, Fractures, and Death in Older Women
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- 25 February 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 168 (4) , 382-389
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2007.113
Abstract
Frailty is defined variably because many factors have been reported to reflect frailty in older adults1 and it has not yet emerged as a discrete clinical syndrome.2,3 Despite these limitations, it is recognized that older persons characterized as frail have a higher risk of adverse health outcomes that is not entirely explained by advanced age, poorer functional status, or greater prevalence of comorbidities.4Keywords
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