Predicting mortality and hospitalization of older adults by the multimorbidity frailty index

BACKGROUND: Existing operational definitions of frailty are personnel-costly and time-consuming, resulting in estimates with a small sample size that cannot be generalized to the population level. The objectives were to develop a multimorbidity frailty index using Taiwan’s claim database, and to und...

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Autores principales: Wen, Yao-Chun, Chen, Liang-Kung, Hsiao, Fei-Yuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29145407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187825

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29145407
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187825

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