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A frailty instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).

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posted on 2016-03-01, 16:32 authored by Roman Romero-Ortuno, Cathal Dominic Walsh, Brian A Lawlor, Rose Anne Kenny
Background: A frailty paradigm would be useful in primary care to identify older people at risk, but appropriate metrics at that level are lacking. We created and validated a simple instrument for frailty screening in Europeans aged ≥50. Our study is based on the first wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, http://www.share-project.org), a large population-based survey conducted in 2004-2005 in twelve European

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BMC Geriatrics;10: 57

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BioMed Central

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peer-reviewed

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ERC

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English

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