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Cumulative Illness Rating Scale: a standalone construct

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Geriatric medicine

a rating of chronic illness burden that grades severity of disease in each organ system and sums the ratings.

In geriatric medicine, Cumulative Illness Rating Scale refers to a rating of chronic illness burden that grades severity of disease in each organ system and sums the ratings. This meaning comes from Linn (1968) in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.[1]

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References

Linn, B. S., Linn, M. W., & Gurel, L. (1968). Cumulative Illness Rating Scale. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 16(5), 622-626. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1968.tb02103.x

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