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Rules to Identify Persons with Frailty in Administrative Health Databases.
- Source :
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Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement [Can J Aging] 2017 Dec; Vol. 36 (4), pp. 514-521. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Oct 04. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This study sought to develop frailty "identification rules" using population-based health administrative data that can be readily applied across jurisdictions for living and deceased persons. Three frailty identification rules were developed based on accepted definitions of frailty, markers of service utilization, and expert consultation, and were limited to variables within two common population-based administrative health databases: hospital discharge abstracts and physician claims data. These rules were used to identify persons with frailty from both decedent and living populations across five Canadian provinces. Participants included persons who had died and were aged 66 years or older at the time of death (British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia) and living persons 65 years or older (British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec). Descriptive statistics were computed for persons identified using each rule. The proportion of persons identified as frail ranged from 58.2-78.1 per cent (decedents) and 5.1-14.7 per cent (living persons).
- Subjects :
- Accidental Falls statistics & numerical data
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Canada epidemiology
Cognitive Dysfunction epidemiology
Databases, Factual
Humans
Long-Term Care statistics & numerical data
Palliative Care statistics & numerical data
Population Surveillance
Frail Elderly statistics & numerical data
Frailty epidemiology
Frailty physiopathology
Geriatric Assessment
Patient Acceptance of Health Care statistics & numerical data
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1710-1107
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Canadian journal on aging = La revue canadienne du vieillissement
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 28974280
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980817000393