How should we grade frailty in nursing home patients?
Authors:
- Kenneth RockwoodKRKenneth Rockwood
- Melanie Joan AbeysunderaMAMelanie Joan Abeysundera
- Arnold MitnitskiAMArnold Mitnitski
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
- Vol. 8 (9) , 595-603
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