Accessing the discriminatory performance of FRAIL-NH in two-class and three-class frailty and examining its agreement with the frailty index among nursing home residents in mainland China

Abstract Background FRAIL-NH has been commonly used to assess frailty in nursing home residents and validated in many ethnic populations; however, it has not been validated in mainland China, where such an assessment tool is lacking. This study aimed to (1) assess the discriminatory performance of F...

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Main Authors: Feng Ge, Weiwei Liu, Minhui Liu, Siyuan Tang, Yongjin Lu, Tianxue Hou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:BMC Geriatrics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12877-019-1314-9