The Frequency of Frailty in Ambulatory Patients With Chronic Lung Diseases

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 10-15

  Mittal, Neha ^a   Raj, Rishi ^b   Islam, Ebtesam Attaya ^a   Nugent, Kenneth ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); frailty; gait speed; lung disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEXAS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84988468574     PISSN: 21501319     EISSN: 21501327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2150131915603202     Document Type: Article

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