Frailty index - Wikipedia

The frailty index (FI) is used to measure the health status of older individuals; it serves as a proxy measure of aging and vulnerability to poor outcomes. Frailtyindex FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch Thisarticleneedsadditionalcitationsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingcitationstoreliablesources.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.Findsources: "Frailtyindex" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(September2015)(Learnhowandwhentoremovethistemplatemessage) FrailtyindexAnelderlycoupleoutforawalk.Purposemeasurehealthstatusinelderly Thefrailtyindex(FI)isusedtomeasurethehealthstatusofolderindividuals;itservesasaproxymeasureofagingandvulnerabilitytopooroutcomes. FIwasdevelopedbyDr.KennethRockwoodandDr.ArnoldMitnitskiatDalhousieUniversityinHalifax,NovaScotia,Canada. FIisdefinedastheproportionofdeficitspresentinanindividualoutofthetotalnumberofage-relatedhealthvariablesconsidered.Afrailtyindexcanbecreatedinmostsecondarydatasourcesrelatedtohealthbyutilizinghealthdeficitsthatareroutinelycollectedinhealthassessments.Thesedeficitsincludediseases,signs,symptoms,laboratoryabnormalities,cognitiveimpairments,anddisabilitiesinactivitiesofdailyliving.[1] FrailtyIndex(FI)=(numberofhealthdeficitspresent)÷(numberofhealthdeficitsmeasured) Forexample,apersonwith20of40deficitscollectedhasanFIscoreof20/40=0.5;whilstforsomeonewith10deficits,theFIscoreis10/40=0.25.TheFItakesadvantageofthehighredundancyinthehumanorganism.Thisiswhyitisreplicableacrossdifferentdatabasesevenwhendifferentitemsanddifferentnumbersofitemsareused.Thestandardprocedureforcreatingafrailtyindexarefoundinanopen-accesspublication.[2] Thereareseveralfrailtyindices,includingaclinicaldeficitsfrailtyindex(FI-CD)andabiomarker-basedfrailtyindex(FI-B).[3] Seealso[edit] Disability Physiologicalfunctionalcapacity References[edit] ^Peña,FernandoG.;Theou,Olga;Wallace,Lindsay;Brothers,ThomasD.;Gill,ThomasM.;Gahbauer,EvelyneA.;Kirkland,Susan;Mitnitski,Arnold;Rockwood,Kenneth(2014-02-24)."BMCGeriatrics".Biomedcentral.com.14(1):25.doi:10.1186/1471-2318-14-25.PMC 3938909.PMID 24559204. ^Searle,SamuelD;Mitnitski,Arnold;Gahbauer,EvelyneA;Gill,ThomasM;Rockwood,Kenneth(2008-09-30)."Astandardprocedureforcreatingafrailtyindex".BMCGeriatrics.8(1):24.doi:10.1186/1471-2318-8-24.PMC 2573877.PMID 18826625. ^Mitnitski,Arnold;Collerton,Joanna;Martin-Ruiz,Carmen;Jagger,Carol;vonZglinicki,Thomas;Rockwood,Kenneth;Kirkwood,ThomasB.L.(2015-07-13)."BMCMedicine".Biomedcentral.com.13(1):161.doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0400-x.PMC 4499935.PMID 26166298. Thismedicaldiagnosticarticleisastub.YoucanhelpWikipediabyexpandingit.vte Retrievedfrom"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frailty_index&oldid=1022689473" Categories:GeriatricsGerontologyMedicalscalesMedicaldiagnosticstubsHiddencategories:ArticlesneedingadditionalreferencesfromSeptember2015AllarticlesneedingadditionalreferencesAllstubarticles Navigationmenu Personaltools NotloggedinTalkContributionsCreateaccountLogin Namespaces ArticleTalk English expanded collapsed Views ReadEditViewhistory More expanded collapsed Search Navigation MainpageContentsCurrenteventsRandomarticleAboutWikipediaContactusDonate Contribute HelpLearntoeditCommunityportalRecentchangesUploadfile Tools WhatlinkshereRelatedchangesUploadfileSpecialpagesPermanentlinkPageinformationCitethispageWikidataitem Print/export DownloadasPDFPrintableversion Languages Addlinks