Frailty assessment instruments: Systematic characterization of the uses and contexts of highly-cited instruments

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue , 2016, Pages 53-61

  Buta, Brian J ^a,b   Walston, Jeremy D ^a,b   Godino, Job G ^c,d   Park, Minsun ^d   Kalyani, Rita R ^a,b   Xue, Qian Li ^a,b   Bandeen Roche, Karen ^a,d   Varadhan, Ravi ^a,b,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frailty assessment; Instrument; Operational definition; Review

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; CITATION ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DOCUMENTATION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84954284933     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2015.12.003     Document Type: Review

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