A reliable measure of frailty for a community dwelling older population
Background: Frailty remains an elusive concept despite many efforts to define and measure it. The difficulty in translating the clinical profile of frail elderly people into a quantifiable assessment tool is due to the complex and heterogeneous nature of their health problems. Viewing frailty as a `...
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BioMed Central
2010
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