25 Thus, frailty assessment in elderly populations may be significant for patient management personalization, allowing reduction in both excessive complications and costs of undertreatment and overtreatment. 40 , 42 – 44 However, the lack of consensus for a universal definition of frailty for clinical use limits the application of the diagnosis of frailty syndrome in clinical practice.
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Fried frailty phenotype assessment components as applied to geriatric inpatients.
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