Frailty index
A frailty index to predict the mortality risk in a population of senior mexican adults
... the frailty index, follow- ing in each of them the scoring suggested by Rockwood ...questions. Frailty index was therefore defined as a proportion of the total number of deficits an individual ...
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Predictability of frailty index and its components on mortality in older adults in China
... We have selected following 8 major sets of the components: cognitive functioning, chronic diseases, ADL disability, IADL disability, functional limitations, self-rated health, hearing or vision impairment, and ...
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Comparison of alternate scoring of variables on the performance of the frailty index
... their frailty index and the more vulnerable they are to adverse ...outcomes. Frailty indices demonstrate similar characteristics across diverse samples and settings, even when they employ different ...
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Convergent validity of the electronic frailty index
... routine frailty identification, an electronic frailty index (eFI) based on existing primary care electronic health record data has been made freely available to every general practice in England, ...
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The frailty index in Europeans: assocation with age and mortality
... The frailty index (FI) has been proposed as an index of de fi cits (i.e. symptoms, signs, diseases and disabilities) that accumulate with age [5, 6]. An individual ’ s FI score re fl ects the ...
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Effects of aquarobic on health-related physical fitness, cardiovascular factor and frailty-index in pre-frailty elderly women with hypertension
... as frailty is reported to be higher in elderly people and in women than in men system- atic management of the elderly women is ...and frailty index to pre-frailty elderly women with ...and ...
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Assessing Global Frailty Scores: Development of a Global Burden of Disease-Frailty Index (GBD-FI)
... comparing frailty instruments including the Evaluative Frailty Index for Physical Activity (EFIP)[32]; the Frailty index created by Searle [11]; a frailty index from the ...
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A frailty index derived from a standardized comprehensive geriatric assessment predicts mortality and aged residential care admission
... validated frailty scales, [1, 9, 19] but a significant advantage of our study and its utilisation of MDS-HC data, is that it allows for a compre- hensive multi-dimensional perspective that aims to cap- ture the ...
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An alternative method for Frailty Index cut off points to define frailty categories
... The Frailty Index (FI) sees frailty in relation to the accumulation of health deficits. The FI is measured by comparing the ratio of health deficits present within an individual to possible health ...
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Categorical Frailty Phenotype and Continuous Frailty Index: A Conceptual Overview of Frailty and Its Components among Older Persons in India
... that frailty index was more useful in depicting wealth inequality among different gender and age ...The frailty index can be more useful in estimating wealth inequalities in ...The ...
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Screening for frailty in primary care: a systematic review of the psychometric properties of the frailty index in community-dwelling older people
... and older people living in assisted living facilities. In the Netherlands, GPs provide care to older people in all these different living situations, and virtually all older people in these living situations are ...
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Derivation of a frailty index from the interRAI acute care instrument
... The interRAI-AC is compatible with other interRAI assessment systems used extensively across Europe and North America, New Zealand and Singapore. In contrast to previous work [36], this FI comprises only core data items, ...
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A standard procedure for creating a frailty index
... interim frailty index, whose purpose was to help provide cut-points for the remaining ...completed index was then plotted against the remaining ordinal and continuous variables to under- stand where ...
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Operationalizing a frailty index using routine blood and urine tests
... other frailty instruments were operationalized based on para- meters that were evaluated at the end of the hospital stays of the study participants, ie, before ...to frailty after treatment and control of ...
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Frailty Index in Europeans: association with determinants of health
... criteria), frailty was associated with income and education 32 ...of frailty were increased for those of low education or income regardless of race 33 ...in frailty over time 34 ...in frailty ...
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A proposal for a self rated frailty index and status for patient oriented research
... Model, frailty can be defined if at least three of the following present: weight loss, low handgrip strength, slow walking speed, exhaustion, and reduced physical activity ...The frailty measured by the ...
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The Frailty Instrument for primary care of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe predicts mortality similarly to a frailty index based on comprehensive geriatric assessment
... continuous frailty measures, the FIt score and the FIx, was assessed with the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (the normality of the variables was previously checked with the one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov ...
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An overview of osteoporosis and frailty in the elderly
... continuous frailty index of deficit accumulation showed higher discriminatory ability than the categorical phenotype model [9, 30 – ...the frailty index in predict- ing risk of adverse ...
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Prevalence of frailty among community dwelling older adults in receipt of low level home support: a cross-sectional analysis of the North Dublin Cohort
... of frailty are on a con- tinuum from non-frail, pre-frail to frail, representing a transition phase between successful aging and disability [13, ...identify frailty in the ...the Frailty Index ...
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<p>Identification of Frailty and Its Risk Factors in Elderly Hospitalized Patients from Different Wards: A Cross-Sectional Study in China</p>
... proposed frailty as a clinical state resulting from the accumulation of de fi ...a frailty index (FI) to re fl ect the proportion of de fi cits presenting in a ...mass index (BMI), calf circum- ...
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