Critical appraisal of the concept frailty: rating of frailty in elderly people has weak scientific basis and should not be used for managing individual patients

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• who: Compaq from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the article: Critical Appraisal of the Concept Frailty: Rating of Frailty in Elderly People has Weak Scientific Basis and should not be Used for Managing Individual Patients, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The lack of a clear definition and evidence-based treatment of frailty means that it is inappropriate to introduce assessments of frailty in individual elderly patients in health care.
• future: When a frailty scale is described as u2018validated` in the literature this refers to predictive validation i.e. the ability of a rating scale . . .
  

   

  

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