Open AccessGait Speed and Survival in Older Adults
Author(s) -
Stephanie A. Studenski
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2010.1923
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , gait , preferred walking speed , life expectancy , survival analysis , proportional hazards model , cohort , survival rate , cohort study , demography , physical medicine and rehabilitation , population , environmental health , sociology
Survival estimates help individualize goals of care for geriatric patients, but life tables fail to account for the great variability in survival. Physical performance measures, such as gait speed, might help account for variability, allowing clinicians to make more individualized estimates.
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