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The Lancet

Volume 385, Issue 9968, 14–20 February 2015, Pages e7-e9
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Frailty in the clinical scenario

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    Interestingly, the use of standard cut-points (FI ≥0.21) leads to a greater dilution of the predictive value for every outcome measured through the FI in our study (Supplementary Table 7). Given that disability prevention and postponement are among the main goals of frailty screening, the instruments used for this purpose should allow to accurately identify as frail those subjects with increased odds of becoming disabled in the absence of already prevalent disability [3,59]. An appealing question regarding the use of PPMs in frailty screening is whether composite or single PPMs are more accurate in frailty detection and risk profiling.

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