Failure to complete performance-based measures is associated with poor health status and an increased risk of death [3]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 225-228

  Rockwood, Kenneth ^a   Jones, David ^a   Wang, Yan ^b   Carver, Daniel ^a   Mitnitski, Arnold ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GAIT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEATH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33947398761     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl160     Document Type: Letter

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