Browsing Medical Gerontology (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Severity of Illness Index"
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An alternative method for Frailty Index cut-off points to define frailty categories.
(2013)PURPOSE: the Frailty Index (FI) is a popular operationalization of frailty. FI cut-off points have been proposed to define, regardless of age, frailty categories with increasing risk. Here, an alternative method is ... -
The SHARE operationalized frailty phenotype: a comparison of two approaches.
(2013)PURPOSE: the phenotype defined by Fried et al. is one of the main operationalizations of frailty. Santos-Eggimann et al. pioneered the adaptation of the phenotype criteria to the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement ...