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Frailty identification and management among Brazilian healthcare professionals: a survey

Paula Schmidt Azevedo,Ruth Caldeira de Melo,Juli Thomaz de Souza,Rachael Frost,James P. Gavin,Katie Robinson,Paulo José Fortes Villas Boas,Marcos Ferreira Minicucci,Ivan Aprahamian,Patrick Alexander Wachholz, Kathryn Hinslif-Smith,Adam Lee Gordon

BMC Geriatrics（2024）

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Abstract
National and international guidelines on frailty assessment and management recommend frailty screening in older people. This study aimed to determine how Brazilian healthcare professionals (HCPs) identify and manage frailty in practice. An anonymous online survey on the assessment and management of frailty was circulated virtually through HCPs across Brazil. Most of the respondants used non-specific criteria such as gait speed (45
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Frailty,Frailty criteria,Healthcare professionals,Older people,Survey,Brazil
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