Assessing Frailty in the General Medical Clinic of a Tertiary Hospital in Northern Malaysia: The FRAIL Scale or the Clinical Frailty Scale.

Chiann Ni ThiamChin Yik OoiYin Kar SeahDeik Roy Chuan Irene LooiAlan Swee Hock Ch'ng

Published in: Current gerontology and geriatrics research (2021)

Patient characteristics influenced the choice of the frailty assessment tool. The FRAIL scale and the CFS may complement each other in providing optimized care to older patients who attended the GMC.

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