Journal article
Measuring frailty in clinical practice: a comparison of physical frailty assessment methods in a geriatric out-patient clinic
Abstract
BackgroundThe objectives of this study were to determine: 1) the prevalence of frailty using Fried’s phenotype method and the Short Performance Physical Battery (SPPB), 2) agreement between frailty assessment methods, 3) the feasibility of assessing frailty using Fried’s phenotype method and the SPPB.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted at a geriatric out-patient clinic in Hamilton, Canada. A research assistant conducted all frailty …
Authors
Pritchard JM; Kennedy CC; Karampatos S; Ioannidis G; Misiaszek B; Marr S; Patterson C; Woo T; Papaioannou A
Journal
BMC Geriatrics, Vol. 17, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2017
DOI
10.1186/s12877-017-0623-0
ISSN
1471-2318