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

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The recommendations provided herein are intended for use by healthcare providers in their management of older adults with frailty in the Asia Pacific region and it is proposed that regional guideline support committees be formed to help provide regular updates to these evidence-based guidelines.
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This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 363 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deprescribing & Guideline.

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Management of frailty: opportunities, challenges, and future directions.

TL;DR: This work advocates change towards individually tailored interventions that preserve an individual's independence, physical function, and cognition by promoting the recognition of frailty, furthering advancements in evidence-based treatment options, and identifying cost-effective care delivery strategies.
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International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Sarcopenia (ICFSR): Screening, Diagnosis and Management

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TL;DR: Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for screening, diagnosis and management of sarcopenia from the task force of the International Conference on Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ICSFR) are presented.
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Physical Frailty: ICFSR International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identification and Management

TL;DR: The task force of the International Conference of Frailty and Sarcopenia Research developed these clinical practice guidelines to overview the current evidence-base and provide recommendations for the identification and management of frailty in older adults using the GRADE approach.
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Frailty syndrome: implications and challenges for health care policy.

TL;DR: Based on currently available evidence, multi-domain intervention trials, including exercise component, especially multicomponent exercise, which includes resistance training, seem to be promising and further understanding of interventions to reverse frailty, and education/training of health care professionals should also be considered.
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Detection of older people at increased risk of adverse health outcomes after an emergency visit: the ISAR screening tool.

TL;DR: A self‐report screening tool to identify older people in the emergency department of a hospital at increased risk of adverse health outcomes, including death, admission to a nursing home or long‐term hospitalization, or a clinically significant decrease in functional status is developed.
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Potentially Inappropriate Medications Defined by STOPP Criteria and the Risk of Adverse Drug Events in Older Hospitalized Patients

TL;DR: STOPP criteria PIMs, unlike Beers criteria Pims, are significantly associated with avoidable ADEs in older people that cause or contribute to urgent hospitalization.
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Frailty screening methods for predicting outcome of a comprehensive geriatric assessment in elderly patients with cancer: a systematic review.

TL;DR: It might be beneficial for all elderly patients with cancer to receive a complete geriatric assessment, since available frailty screening methods have insufficient discriminative power to select patients for further assessment.
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Defining inappropriate practices in prescribing for elderly people: a national consensus panel

TL;DR: The authors have developed a valid, relevant list of inappropriate practices in prescribing for elderly people, to be used in a practice-based intervention study.
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The frailty phenotype and the frailty index: different instruments for different purposes

TL;DR: The designs and rationals of the frailty phenotype and Frailty Index are discussed, proposing the correct ways for having them implemented in the clinical setting.
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