Measures of frailty in population-based studies: An overview

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bouillon, Kim ^a   Kivimaki, Mika ^a,b   Hamer, Mark ^a   Sabia, Severine ^a   Fransson, Eleonor I ^c,d   Singh Manoux, Archana ^a,e,f   Gale, Catharine R ^g,h   Batty, G David ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^f ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frail elderly; Frailty; Measure; Overview; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

FACTUAL DATABASE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; VERY ELDERLY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84879076816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-13-64     Document Type: Article

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