Instruments for geriatric assessment: new multidimensional assessment approaches.

Franco Rengo1, Valentina Parisi, Giuseppe Rengo

  • 1Salvatore Maugeri Foundation-IRCCS-Institute of Telese Terme, Benevento, Italy. rengo@unina.it

Journal of Nephrology
|June 20, 2012
PubMed
Summary

Frail elderly individuals require specialized care. Multidimensional geriatric assessments, like the Multidimensional Prognostic Index (MPI), effectively identify high-risk patients for better clinical management and prognosis.

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