Function and frailty: What do we have to measure?;Función y fragilidad: ¿qué tenemos que medir?

Revista Espanola de Geriatria y Gerontologia

Volumn 41, Issue SPEC. ISS. 1, 2006, Pages 36-42

  Cortés, Juan José Baztán ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CENTRAL DE LA CRUZ ROJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disability; Elderly; Frailty

Indexed keywords

AGING; DEATH; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846202920     PISSN: 0211139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0211-139X(06)72997-3     Document Type: Review

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