Predicting Adverse Health Outcomes in Nursing Homes: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study and Development of the FRAIL-Minimum Data Set (MDS) Quick Screening Tool

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1042-1047

  Luo, Hao ^a,b   Lum, Terry Y S ^a   Wong, Gloria H Y ^a,c   Kwan, Joseph S K ^a,c   Tang, Jennifer Y M ^a   Chi, Iris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse health outcomes; Frailty; Minimum Data Set; Nursing home

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; FALLING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAIL NH SCALE; HONG KONG; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MOBILIZATION; MODEL; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYPHARMACY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE SIZE; SCREENING TEST; VERY ELDERLY; FORECASTING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATASETS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 84947708394     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.09.006     Document Type: Article

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