Association between functional status of chinese nursing home older adults and long term mortality

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 147.e1-147.e5

  Chan, Tuen Ching ^a,b   Shea, Yat Fung ^a,b   Luk, Ka Hay J ^a   Chu, Leung Wing ^b   Chan, Hon Wai F ^a  

^a Fung Yiu King Hospital   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese older adults; Functional status; Mortality; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HONG KONG; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TEST; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84873148152     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2012.10.016     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Benitez-Rosario M.A., Hernandez-Eztevez P., Aguirre-Jaime A., et al. Functional status and mortality in community dwelling older people. J Am Geriatr Soc 2001, 49:100-101.
2. Forasassi C., Golmard J.L., Pautas E., et al. Inflammation and disability as risk factors for mortality in elderly acute care patients. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2009, 48:406-410.
3. Inouye S.K., Peduzzi P.N., Robison J.T., et al. Importance of functional measures in predicting mortality among older hospitalized patients. J Am Med Assoc 1998, 279:1187-1193.
4. Scott W.K., Macera C.A., Cornman C.B., et al. Functional health status as a predictor of mortality in men and women over 65. J Clin Epidemiol 1997, 3:291-296.
5. Nakazawa A., Nakamura K., Kitamura K., et al. Association between activities of daily living and mortality among institutionalized elderly adults in Japan. J Epidemiol 2012, 22:501-507.
6. Matusik P., Tomaszewski K., Chmielowska K., et al. Severe frailty and cognitive impairment are related to higher mortality in 12-month follow-up of nursing home residents. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2012, 55:22-24.
7. Mahoney F., Barthel D. Functional evaluation: The Barthel Index. Md Med J 1965, 14:61-65.
8. Law M., Letts L. A critical review of scales of activities of daily living. Am J Occup Ther 1989, 43:522-528.
9. Tang M., Woo J., Hui E., et al. Utilization of emergency room and hospitalization by Chinese nursing home residents. A cross-sectional study. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2010, 11:325-332.
10. Charlson M.E., Pompei P., Ales K.L., et al. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation. J Chronic Dis 1987, 40:373-383.
11. Deyo R.A., Cherkin D.C., Ciol M.A. Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative database. J Clin Epidemiol 1992, 45:613-619.
12. Groot V., Beckerman H., Lankhorst G.J., et al. How to measure comorbidity: A critical review of available methods. J Clin Epidemiol 2003, 56:221-229.
13. Schneeweiss S., Maclure M. Use of comorbidity scores for control of confounding in studies using administrative databases. Int J Epidemiol 2000, 29:891-898.
14. Chan T.C., Shea Y.F., Luk K.H., et al. Development and validation of a prognostic index for 2-year mortality in Chinese older residents living in nursing homes. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2012, 12:555-562.
15. Covinsky K.E., Palmer R.M., Fortinsky R.H., et al. Loss of independence in activities of daily living in older adults hospitalised with medical illnesses: Increased vulnerability with age. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003, 51:451-458.
16. Chu L.W., Pei K.W., Ho M.H., Chan P.T. Validation of the abbreviated mental test in the elderly medical patient. Hong Kong Med J 1995, 1:207-211.
17. Chan T.C., Luk J.K., Shea Y.F., et al. Influence of education and age on the Abbreviated Mental Test in Chinese nursing home older adults. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2012, [epub ahead of print]. 10.1016/j.jamda.2012.08.018.
18. Chan T.C., Yap D.Y., Shea Y.F., et al. Chronic kidney disease and its association with mortality and hospitalization in Chinese nursing home older residents: A 3-year prospective cohort study. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2012, 13:782-787.
19. Landi F., Russo A., Danese P., et al. Anemia status, hemoglobin concentration, and mortality in nursing home older residents. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2007, 8:322-327.
20. Chan T.C., Yap D.Y., Shea Y.F., et al. Prevalence and associated comorbidities of moderate to severe chronic renal impairment in Chinese nursing home older adults. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2012, 13:630-633.
21. Dharmarajan T.S., Pankratov A., Morris E., et al. Anemia: Its impact on hospitalizations and length of hospital stay in nursing home and community older adults. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2008, 9:354-359.
22. Chan T.C., Yap D.Y., Shea Y.F., et al. Prevalence of anemia in Chinese nursing home older adults: Implication of age and renal impairment. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2012, [epub ahead of print]. 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2012.00942.x.
23. Katona P., Katona-Apte J. The interaction between nutrition and infection. Clin Infect Dis 2008, 46:1582-1588.
24. Yang Y., Yang K.S., Hsann Y.M., et al. The effect of comorbidity and age on hospital mortality and length of stay in patients with sepsis. J Crit Care 2010, 25:398-405.
25. Mody L., Sun R., Bradley S.F. Assessment of pneumonia in older adults: Effect of functional status. J Am Geriatr Soc 2006, 54:1062-1067.
26. Murcia J., Llorens P., Sanchez-Paya J., et al. Functional status determined by Barthel Index predicts community acquired pneumonia mortality in general population. J Infect 2010, 61:458-464.
27. Torres O.H., Munoz J., Ruiz D., et al. Outcome predictors of pneumonia in elderly patients: Importance of functional assessment. J Am Geriatr Soc 2004, 52:1603-1609.
28. Chan T.C., Hung I.F., Luk J.K., et al. Efficacy of dual vaccination of pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza and seasonal influenza on institutionalized elderly: A one-year prospective cohort study. Vaccine 2011, 29:7773-7778.
29. Jefferson T., Rivetti D., Rivetti A., et al. Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines in elderly people: A systematic review. Lancet 2005, 366:1165-1174.
30. Chan T.C., Hung I.F., Luk J.K., et al. Prevention of mortality and pneumonia among nursing home older adults by dual pneumococcal and seasonal influenza vaccination during a pandemic caused by novel pandemic influenza A (H1N1). J Am Med Dir Assoc 2012, 13:698-703.
31. Carlson M.D., Lim B., Meier D.E. Strategies and innovative models for delivering palliative care in nursing homes. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2011, 2:91-98.
32. Chu L.W., Luk J.K., Hui E., et al. Advance directive and end-of-life care preferences among Chinese nursing home residents in Hong Kong. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2011, 2:143-152.
33. Luk J.K.H., Liu A., Ng W.C., et al. End-of-life care: Towards a more dignified dying process in residential care homes for the elderly. HKMJ 2010, 16:235-236.
34. Omran M.L., Morley J.E. Assessment of protein energy malnutrition in older persons, Part II: laboratory evaluation. Nutrition 2000, 16:131-140.
35. Seiler W.O. Clinical pictures of malnutrition in ill elderly subjects. Nutrition 2001, 17:496-498.
36. Kuzuya M., Izawa S., Enoki H., et al. Is serum albumin a good marker for malnutrition in the physically impaired elderly?. Clin Nutr 2007, 26:84-90.
37. Zekry D., Loures Valle B.H., Lardi C., et al. Geriatrics index of comorbidity was the most accurate predictor of death in geriatric hospital among six comorbidity scores. J Clin Epidemiol 2010, 63:1036-1044.
38. Rozzini R., Frisoni G.B., Ferrucci L., et al. Geriatric index of comorbidity: Validation and comparison with other measures of comorbidity. Age Ageing 2002, 31:277-285.