Comparing the prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality of frailty instruments: a multicentre 1-year follow-up in hospitalized older patients.

BACKGROUND:Frailty is a dynamic age-related condition of increased vulnerability characterized by declines across multiple physiologic systems and associated with an increased risk of death. We compared the predictive accuracy for one-month and one-year all-cause mortality of four frailty instrument...

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Main Authors: Alberto Pilotto, Franco Rengo, Niccolò Marchionni, Daniele Sancarlo, Andrea Fontana, Francesco Panza, Luigi Ferrucci, FIRI-SIGG Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22247767/?tool=EBI