Reproducibility of the Brazilian version of the Edmonton Frail Scale for elderly living in the community;Reprodutibilidade da versão Brasileira adaptada da Edmonton Frail Scale para idosos residentes na comunidade

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1330-1336

  Fabrício Wehbe, Suzele Cristina Coelho ^a   Cruz, Idiane Rosset ^b   Haas, Vanderlei José ^c   Diniz, Marina Aleixo ^a   Dantas, Rosana Aparecida Spadoti ^a   Rodrigues, Rosalina Aparecida Partezani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Frail Elderly; Geriatric Nursing; Nursing Methodology Validation; Reproducibility of Results; Validation Studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; BRAZIL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84891140447     PISSN: 01041169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0104-1169.2933.2371     Document Type: Article

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