Open AccessComparison of two different frailty scales in the longitudinal Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (SATSA)
Author(s) -
Alexandra Wennberg,
Weiyao Yin,
Fang Fang,
Nancy L. Pedersen,
Sara Hägg,
Juulia Jylhävä,
Karin Modig
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.953
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1651-1905
pISSN - 1403-4948
DOI - 10.1177/14034948211059958
Subject(s) - frailty index , medicine , hazard ratio , gerontology , demography , proportional hazards model , cohort , cohort study , population , confidence interval , environmental health , sociology
Although up to 25% of older adults are frail, assessing frailty can be difficult, especially in registry data. This study evaluated the utility of a code-based frailty score in registry data by comparing it to a gold-standard frailty score to understand how frailty can be quantified in population data and perhaps better addressed in healthcare.