Response to the Letter to the Editor: "What Is Missing in the Validation of Frailty Instruments?"

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 143-144

  Cesari, Matteo ^a,b   Vellas, Bruno ^a,b  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; FRAILTY INDEX; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; LETTER; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY;

FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS;

EID: 84893024562     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2013.11.012     Document Type: Letter

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