Frailty in older persons: Multisystem risk factors and the Frailty Risk Index (FRI)

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 635-642

  Ng, Tze Pin ^a   Feng, Liang ^a   Nyunt, Ma Shwe Zin ^a   Larbi, Anis ^b   Yap, Keng Bee ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Functional dependency; Hospitalization; Physical frailty; Quality of life; Risk factors; Scale; Validation

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADL DISABILITY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXHAUSTION; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY RISK INDEX; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; SHORT FORM 12; SLOWNESS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PROCEDURES; SINGAPORE; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84906936971     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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