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International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices Volume 2 (2015), Article ID 2:IJNCP-140, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2015/140
Research Article
Is the Barthel Index an Adequate Assessment Tool for Identifying a Risk Group in Elderly People Living at Home?

Eva Schulc*, Martin Pallauf, Gerhard Mueller, Tanja Wildbahner and Christa Them

Department of Nursing science and Gerontology, UMIT-Private University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall i. Tyrol, Austria
Dr. Eva Schulc,Department of Nursing science and Gerontology, UMIT-Private University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall i. Tyrol, Austria; E-mail: Eva.Schulc@umit.at
19 May 2015; 23 August 2015; 25 August 2015
Schulc E, Pallauf M, Mueller G, Wildbahner T, Them C (2015) Is the Barthel Index an Adequate Assessment Tool for Identifying a Risk Group in Elderly People Living at Home? Int J Nurs Clin Pract 2: 140. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2394-4978/2015/140
Eva Schulc was supported by the Tyrolean Science Fund (UNI- 0404-1194) and the Tyrolean state government.
© 2015 Schulc et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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