A multidisciplinary systematic literature review on frailty: Overview of the methodology used by the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Aging

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Karunananthan, Sathya ^a   Wolfson, Christina ^a,b   Bergman, Howard ^a,c   Béland, François ^a,c   Hogan, David B ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SCIENCE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; METHODOLOGY; PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH PRIORITY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY; AGED; AGING; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; GERIATRICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; REVIEW; STANDARD;

AGED; AGING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS;

EID: 70350359110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-68     Document Type: Article

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