EXTERNAL VALIDATION of the CLAIMS-BASED FRAILTY INDEX in the NATIONAL HEALTH and AGING TRENDS STUDY COHORT

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 186, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 745-747

  Segal, Jodi B ^a,b   Huang, Jin ^a,c   Roth, David L ^a,c   Varadhan, Ravi ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CAUCASIAN; CLAIMS BASED FRAILTY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL VALIDATION; FALLING; FEMALE; FRAILTY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; TREND STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS; AGED; AGING; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MEDICARE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PHENOTYPE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85029715360     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwx257     Document Type: Letter

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