Open AccessFrailty index as a predictor of mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Author(s) -
Gotaro Kojima,
Steve Iliffe,
Kate Walters
Publication year - 2017
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/afx162
Subject(s) - medicine , meta analysis , hazard ratio , odds ratio , demography , cohort study , cinahl , pooled analysis , confidence interval , medline , meta regression , psychological intervention , psychiatry , sociology , political science , law
wo popular operational definitions of frailty, the frailty phenotype and Frailty index (FI), are based on different theories. Although FI was shown to be superior in predicting mortality to the frailty phenotype, no meta-analysis on mortality risk according to FI has been found in the literature.
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