Identifying core adverse health outcomes for frailty assessment in older adults using administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Measurement of frailty can be based on the ability to predict adverse health outcomes. Although frailty research is progressing rapidly, a unique work that analyzes together outcomes related to frailty condition is still lacking in literature. This article aims to fill this gap, selecting a parsimonious set of outcomes relevant in frailty studies that exploit administrative healthcare data.

Methods

Starting with an extensive literature review, we identified several health outcomes that can be measured with administrative healthcare databases. We computed the prevalence and correlation of these outcomes in a local health unit in North-East Italy. We performed a factor analysis and estimated a graphical model to examine the conditional independence relationships bet

SUBMITTER: Silan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12745202 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature