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A comparison of two approaches to measuring frailty in elderly people.
Rockwood K, Andrew M, Mitnitski A. Rockwood K, et al. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2007 Jul;62(7):738-43. doi: 10.1093/gerona/62.7.738. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2007. PMID: 17634321
BACKGROUND: Many definitions of frailty exist, but few have been directly compared. We compared the relationship between a definition of frailty based on a specific phenotype with one based on an index of deficit accumulation. ...We tested convergent validity by cor …
BACKGROUND: Many definitions of frailty exist, but few have been directly compared. We compared the relationship between a definition …
Comparison of alternate scoring of variables on the performance of the frailty index.
Peña FG, Theou O, Wallace L, Brothers TD, Gill TM, Gahbauer EA, Kirkland S, Mitnitski A, Rockwood K. Peña FG, et al. Among authors: rockwood k. BMC Geriatr. 2014 Feb 24;14:25. doi: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-25. BMC Geriatr. 2014. PMID: 24559204 Free PMC article.
BACKGROUND: The frailty index (FI) is used to measure the health status of ageing individuals. An FI is constructed as the proportion of deficits present in an individual out of the total number of age-related health variables considered. ...For each dataset, we con …
BACKGROUND: The frailty index (FI) is used to measure the health status of ageing individuals. An FI is constructed as the pro …