Comparing the prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality of frailty instruments: A multicentre 1-year follow-up in hospitalized older patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pilotto, Alberto ^a,b   Rengo, Franco ^c,d   Marchionni, Niccolò ^e   Sancarlo, Daniele ^b   Fontana, Andrea ^b   Panza, Francesco ^b   Ferrucci, Luigi ^f  

^a S ANTONIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f HARBOR HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ITALIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84855664614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029090     Document Type: Article

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