A standard procedure for creating a frailty index

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Searle, Samuel D ^a   Mitnitski, Arnold ^a   Gahbauer, Evelyne A ^b   Gill, Thomas M ^b   Rockwood, Kenneth ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY INDEX; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; STANDARD; AGE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; FITNESS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 54949131669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-8-24     Document Type: Article

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