The Asia-Pacific Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Frailty

• Published in: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association Vol. 18; no. 7; p. 564
• Main Authors: Dent, Elsa, Lien, Christopher, Lim, Wee Shiong, Wong, Wei Chin, Wong, Chek Hooi, Ng, Tze Pin, Woo, Jean, Dong, Birong, de la Vega, Shelley, Hua Poi, Philip Jun, Kamaruzzaman, Shahrul Bahyah Binti, Won, Chang, Chen, Liang-Kung, Rockwood, Kenneth, Arai, Hidenori, Rodriguez-Mañas, Leocadio, Cao, Li, Cesari, Matteo, Chan, Piu, Leung, Edward, Landi, Francesco, Fried, Linda P, Morley, John E, Vellas, Bruno, Flicker, Leon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.2017
• Subjects: Aged; Asia; Disease Management; Evidence-Based Medicine; Female; Frail Elderly - statistics & numerical data; Frailty - diagnosis; Frailty - therapy; Geriatric Assessment - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Patient Care Planning - standards; aged; evidence-based medicine/standards; Frail elderly; patient care management; Practice Guidelines as Topic; disease management

To develop Clinical Practice Guidelines for the screening, assessment and management of the geriatric condition of frailty. An adapted Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation approach was used to develop the guidelines. This process involved detailed evaluation of the cur...