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Carers nominated by the frail older person participating in a frailty intervention were invited to participate.
At least 30 40 items, fulfilling recommended criteria, are suggested for inclusion in a frailty index.
Participants missing >20% of data for variables in a frailty index were excluded for analysis of that frailty index [ 12].
In general, the more variables that are included in a frailty index, the more precise estimates become.
These 'weighted' loadings form the basis of an idea for which indicator would be useful to include in a frailty measure.
Variables can be included in a frailty index if they satisfy the following 5 criteria: 1) The variables must be deficits associated with health status.
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By spelling out in detail how each step in constructing a frailty index can be undertaken, and by submitting to an open access journal, we are aiming to make the method widely available.
Additional file 3: Table S3 presents the number of publications in which a frailty measure had been used by investigators other than those who created it.
"Where there is a loophole in the system, a frailty in the system, it's the ability of an unscrupulous distributor to take industrial or technical material and pass it off as pharmaceutical grade," said Kevin J. McGlue, a board member of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council.
In replicating many of the characteristics of a frailty index in a new sample, we can give additional assurance of the robustness of the approach.
21 min: Tim Knights has exposed a frailty in my technical knowledge.
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