The risk of adverse outcomes in hospitalized older patients in relation to a frailty index based on a comprehensive geriatric assessment

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 127-132

  Evans, Stephen J ^a   Sayers, Margaret ^a   Mitnitski, Arnold ^b   Rockwood, Kenneth ^b  

^a CATHOLIC HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute care; Age; Frailty index based on a comprehensive geriatric assessment; Mortality; Older people; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRAILTY INDEX; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE CARE; AGE; FRAILTY INDEX BASED ON A COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; OLDER PEOPLE; PROGNOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84890320189     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft156     Document Type: Article

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