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Review
. 2018 Sep 24;190(38):E1134-E1140.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.171509.

Identification and management of frailty in the primary care setting

Marjan Abbasi  1 , Darryl Rolfson  2 , Amandeep S Khera  2 , Julia Dabravolskaj  2 , Elsa Dent  2 , Linda Xia  2
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Identification and management of frailty in the primary care setting

Marjan Abbasi et al. CMAJ. .

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Darryl Rolfson holds the copyright for the Edmonton Frail Scale and shares licensing rights with Oxford University Press. No other competing interests were declared.

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