Short communication: The veterans aging cohort study index is an effective tool to assess baseline frailty status in a contemporary cohort of HIV-infected persons

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 313-317

  Escota, Gerome V ^a   Patel, Pragna ^b   Brooks, John T ^b   Bush, Tim ^b   Conley, Lois ^b   Baker, Jason ^c   Kojic, Erna Milunka ^d   Hammer, John ^e   Önen, Nur F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Denver Infectious Disease Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; SCORING SYSTEM; VETERANS AGING COHORT STUDY INDEX; AGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; VETERAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VETERANS;

EID: 84924235723     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2014.0225     Document Type: Article

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