Predicting outcome after hip fracture: Using a frailty index to integrate comprehensive geriatric assessment results

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 122-126

  Krishnan, Manju ^a   Beck, Sue ^a   Havelock, Will ^a   Eeles, Eamonn ^b   Hubbard, Ruth E ^c   Johansen, Antony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Frailty; Frailty index; Hip fracture; Length of stay; Mortality; Older people; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED MENTAL TEST SCORE; ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; FRAILTY INDEX; GERIATRIC REHABILITATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; VERY ELDERLY;

FRAILTY; FRAILTY INDEX; HIP FRACTURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; OLDER PEOPLE; OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84890338045     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft084     Document Type: Article

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