期刊名称:International Journal of Population Data Science
电子版ISSN:2399-4908
出版年度:2020
卷号:5
期号:1
页码:1-9
DOI:10.23889/ijpds.v5i1.1343
出版社:Swansea University
摘要:65 years, who had a record in both EMR and administrative data, 5%-8% (n=191 of 3,553, BC; n=2,396 of 29,382, MB) were identified as frail. There was a higher likelihood of being frail with increasing age and being a woman. In BC and MB, those identified as frail in both data sources have approximately twice the number of contacts with primary care (n=20 vs. n=10) and more days in hospital (n=7.2 vs. n=1.9 in BC; n=9.8 vs. n=2.8 in MB) compared to those who are not frail; 27% (BC) and 14% (MB) of those identified as frail in 2014 died in 2015. Conclusions/Implications. Identifying frailty using EMR data is particularly challenging since many functional deficits are not routinely recorded in structured data fields. Our results suggest frailty can be captured along a continuum using both EMR and administrative data.