Usefulness of assessment of the Clinical Frailty Scale and the Dementia Assessment Sheet for Community-based Integrated Care System 21-items at the time of initiation of maintenance hemodialysis in older patients with chronic kidney disease.

<h4>Introduction</h4>We examined whether the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), a widely adopted tool for stratifying the degree of frailty, and the Dementia Assessment Sheet for Community-based Integrated Care System 21-items (DASC-21), a simple tool for simultaneous assessment of impaired c...

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Main Authors: Seiji Hashimoto, Mitsuyo Itabashi, Kenta Taito, Ayano Izawa, Yui Ota, Takaaki Tsuchiya, Shiho Matsuno, Masahiro Arai, Noriko Yamanaka, Takako Saito, Masatoshi Oka, Noriyuki Suzuki, Yuki Tsuruta, Takashi Takei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0301715&type=printable