Caring about trees in the forest: Incorporating frailty in risk analysis for personalized medicine

Personalized Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 681-688

  Ma, Zhanshan ^a   Abdo, Zaid ^a   Forney, Larry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

frailty; frailty modeling; human microbiome; individual hazard function; personalized medicine; population hazard function; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FRAILTY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80755142790     PISSN: 17410541     EISSN: 1744828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/pme.11.72     Document Type: Article

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