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      A Frailty Index Based on Common Laboratory Tests in Comparison With a Clinical Frailty Index for Older Adults in Long-Term Care Facilities.

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          Abstract

          Easily employed measures of frailty are needed in the evaluation of elderly people. Recently, a frailty index (FI) based on deficits in commonly used laboratory tests (the FI-LAB) has been proposed. To address the usefulness of the FI-LAB in long-term care (LTC) settings, we studied institutionalized participants in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging first clinical examination database. Our objectives were to compare the FI-LAB with a clinical FI LTC (FI-Clinical-LTC) focused on common health deficits seen in LTC and to assay its relationship with mortality.

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          Journal
          J Am Med Dir Assoc
          Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
          Elsevier BV
          1538-9375
          1525-8610
          Oct 01 2015
          : 16
          : 10
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Neurology, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Department of Geriatric Medicine and Institute of Brain, Behavior and Neurosciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; Geriatric Medicine Research Unit, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Center for Health Care of the Elderly, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Electronic address: kenneth.rockwood@dal.ca.
          [2 ] Geriatric Medicine Research Unit, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Center for Health Care of the Elderly, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
          [3 ] Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
          [4 ] Geriatric Medicine Research Unit, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Center for Health Care of the Elderly, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Division of Geriatric Medicine, Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Department of Physiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
          Article
          S1525-8610(15)00251-0
          10.1016/j.jamda.2015.03.027
          25952475
          298c1b47-9f5f-497b-907e-9b415cdb3d8b
          History

          Frailty,aged,frailty index,geriatric assessment,laboratory tests,nursing home

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