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Longitudinal trajectories of frailty are associated with short-term mortality in older people: A joint latent class models analysis using two UK primary care databases

Jun 26, 2024 | jclinepi.com | Danielle Robinson |Antonella Delmestri |Andrew Clegg |Leena Elhussein |Daniel Prieto-Alhambra |Alan J Silman

This paper is only available as a PDF. To read, Please Download here. HighlightsWhat is new? Key findings•We identified five subgroups of older people with different frailty progression patterns and associated risk of death. These subgroups had distinct patterns of frailty progression over four years based on the changes in electronic Frailty Index (eFI) score. What this adds to what was known? •eFI is being used in UK primary care to identify vulnerable older people using one cross-sectional value.

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