A Physiologic Index of Comorbidity: Relationship to Mortality and Disability

BACKGROUND: In older adults, there is often substantial undiagnosed chronic disease detectable on noninvasive testing, not accounted for by most comorbidity indices. We developed a simple physiologic index of comorbidity by scoring five noninvasive tests across the full range of values. We examined...

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Main Authors: Newman, Anne B., Boudreau, Robert M., Naydeck, Barbara L., Fried, Linda F., Harris, Tamara B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2496995/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18559635
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