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Frail-VIG index: a concise frailty evaluation tool for rapid geriatric assessment.

Jordi AmblàsJoan Carles MartoriJoan EspaulellaRamon OllerNúria Molist-BrunetMarco InzitariRoman Romero-Ortuno
Published in: BMC geriatrics (2018)
The Frail-VIG index, which requires less time to administer than previously validated FIs, presents a good discriminative capacity for the degree of frailty and a high predictive capacity for mortality in the present cohort. Although more research is needed to confirm the validity of this instrument in other populations and settings, the Frail-VIG may provide clinicians with a RGA method and also a reliable tool to assess frailty in routine practice.
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