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The frail older person does not exist: development of frailty profiles with latent class analysis

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Published Online: 2018-04-04

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Looman, W. M.

Fabbricotti, I. N.

Blom, J. W.

Jansen, A. P. D.

Lutomski, J. E.

Metzelthin, S. F.

Huijsman, R.
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Funding for this research was provided by:

ZonMw (633400014)
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Article History

Received: 15 October 2017

Accepted: 26 March 2018

First Online: 4 April 2018

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