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A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people

Kenneth Rockwood, Xiaowei Song, Chris MacKnight, Howard Bergman, David B. Hogan, Ian McDowell and Arnold Mitnitski

From the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Rockwood, Song, MacKnight, Mitnitski); the Division of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Que. (Bergman); the Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta. (Hogan); and the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. (McDowell)



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  		Fig. 1: Kaplan–Meier curves, adjusted for age and sex, for study participants (n) over the medium term (5–6 years), according to their scores on the CSHA Clinical Frailty Scale. Some scores were grouped. Top: Probability of survival. Bottom: Probability of avoidance of institutional care.

 

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