Index or illusion: The case of frailty indices in the Health and Retirement Study.

INTRODUCTION:Frailty is a geriatric syndrome that has been defined differently with various indices. Without a uniform definition, it remains unclear how to interpret and compare different frailty indices (FIs). With the advances in index mining, we find it necessary to review the implicit assumptio...

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Main Authors: Yi-Sheng Chao, Hsing-Chien Wu, Chao-Jung Wu, Wei-Chih Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6051600?pdf=render