The Elders Risk Assessment Index, an electronic administrative database-derived frailty index, can identify risk of hip fracture in a cohort of community-dwelling adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether an Elders Risk Assessment (ERA) index can predict incident hip fractures without the need for physician-patient encounter or bone mineral density testing.

Patients and methods

A retrospective cohort study was conducted in a community-based cohort of 12,650 patients aged 60 years and older. An ERA score was computed for each subject at index time (January 1, 2005). Incidents of hip fracture from January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2006, were obtained from electronic medical records. We divided the cohort into 5 groups, with the lowest ERA scores forming group A (<15%); 15% to 49%, group B; 50% to 74%, group C; 75% to 89%, group D; and the top 11%, group E. With group A as a reference group, we used logistic regression to compute odds ratios of

SUBMITTER: Albaba M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3538479 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature