Predicting Mortality up to 14 Years Among Community-Dwelling Adults Aged 65 and Older.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Extended validation of an index predicting mortality among community-dwelling US older adults.

Design/setting

Examination of the performance of a previously developed index in predicting 10- and 14-year mortality among respondents to the 1997-2000 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS) using the original development and validation cohorts. Follow-up mortality data are now available through 2011.

Participants

16,063 respondents from the original development cohort and 8,027 respondents from the original validation cohort. All participants were community dwelling and ≥65 years old.

Measurements

We calculated risk scores for each respondent based on the presence or absence of 11 factors (function, illnesses, behaviors, demographics) that make up the i

SUBMITTER: Schonberg MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5478427 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature