A Novel Geriatric Screening Tool in Older Patients with Cancer: The Korean Cancer Study Group Geriatric Score (KG)-7.

Geriatric assessment (GA) is resource-consuming, necessitating screening tools to select appropriate patients who need full GA. The objective of this study is to design a novel geriatric screening tool with easy-to-answer questions and high performance objectively selected from a large dataset to re...

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Main Authors: Jin Won Kim, Se-Hyun Kim, Yu Jung Kim, Keun-Wook Lee, Kwang-Il Kim, Jong Seok Lee, Cheol-Ho Kim, Jee Hyun Kim, Korean Cancer Study Group Geriatric Oncology Working Party
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4581840?pdf=render