"How was your health 3years ago?" Predicting mortality in older adults using a retrospective change measure of self-rated health

Geriatrics and Gerontology International

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 678-686

  Galenkamp, Henrike ^a   Deeg, Dorly Jh ^a,b   Braam, Arjan W ^a,d,e   Huisman, Martijn ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UU   (Netherlands)

^e Altrecht Mental Health Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aged; Health status; Mortality; Prospective studies; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SELF RATED HEALTH; AGE; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

AGED; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880039826     PISSN: 14441586     EISSN: 14470594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0594.2012.00963.x     Document Type: Article

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