How valid and useful is a locally-developed frailty tool for joint decision-making by patients, families and clinicians?

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How valid and useful is a locally-developed frailty tool for joint decision-making by patients, families and clinicians?

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There are increasing numbers of elderly patients in New Zealand hospitals. An ageing population coupled with increasing financial constraints has heralded concern about future management and sustainability of the health system. Another dimension of this issue is the growing concern with how elderly patients are managed and treated in the end stages of their lives and whether the “bio-medicalisation” of the ageing process has now become routine. The context of an ageing population, limited fin...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2016

Creator

Duffus, Benjamin

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6351

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New Zealand / older people / clinicians / frailty / frailty tools / Frail CHeC / Biomedical and clinical sciences / Clinical sciences / Geriatrics and gerontology

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