Measures of Frailty in Chronic Lung Diseases

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Tracy Luckhardt et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Aug.

. 2017 Aug;14(8):1266-1267.

doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201706-420ED.

¹ 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.

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Refining Low Physical Activity Measurement Improves Frailty Assessment in Advanced Lung Disease and Survivors of Critical Illness.
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