"Frailty" in Geriatry and Oncology: One term for two widely differing concepts

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 528-530

  Rouge Bugat, Marie Eve ^a,b,c   Balardy, Laurent ^a,b   Chicoulaa, Bruno ^a,b   Cesari, Matteo ^a,b   Gérard, Stéphane ^a,b   Nourashemi, Fati ^a,b  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c Faculté de Médecine Centre Hospitalo universitaire   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; ONCOLOGY;

AGED; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84903146924     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.04.006     Document Type: Letter

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