Open AccessPredictive performance of four frailty measures in an older Australian population
Author(s) -
Imaina Widagdo,
Nicole Pratt,
Mary Russell,
Elizabeth E. Roughead
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afv144
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , odds ratio , frailty index , population , gerontology , positive predicative value , demography , predictive value , environmental health , sociology
There are several different frailty measures available for identifying the frail elderly. However, their predictive performance in an Australian population has not been examined.
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