@article{a3f9b4d25e9b404f938c07914a9b44af,
title = "Comparison of alternate scoring of variables on the performance of the frailty index",
keywords = "Aging, Coding, Deficit accumulation, Frailty index",
author = "Pe{\~n}a, {Fernando G.} and Olga Theou and Lindsay Wallace and Brothers, {Thomas D.} and Gill, {Thomas M.} and Gahbauer, {Evelyne A.} and Susan Kirkland and Arnold Mitnitski and Kenneth Rockwood",
note = "Funding Information: Funding Sources: KR receives funding from the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation as the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research. KR and AM are supported by operating grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. OT is supported by a Banting Fellowship. Funding Information: We thank Karina Davidson and Daichi Shimbo, investigators for the Nova Scotia Health Survey, for making the data available to us. This paper uses data from SHARE wave 4 release 1.1.1, as of March 28th 2013 or SHARE wave 1 and 2 release 2.5.0, as of May 24th 2011 or SHARELIFE release 1, as of November 24th 2010. The SHARE data collection has been primarily funded by the European Commission through the 5th Framework Programme (project QLK6-CT-2001-00360 in the thematic programme Quality of Life), through the 6th Framework Programme (projects SHARE-I3, RII-CT-2006-062193, COMPARE, CIT5-CT-2005-028857, and SHARELIFE, CIT4-CT-2006-028812) and through the 7th Framework Programme (SHARE-PREP, N° 211909, SHARE-LEAP, N° 227822 and SHARE M4, N° 261982). Additional funding from the U.S. National Institute on Aging (U01 AG09740-13S2, P01 AG005842, P01 AG08291, P30 AG12815, R21 AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG BSR06-11 and OGHA 04-064) and the German Ministry of Education and Research as well as from various national sources is gratefully acknowledged (see www.share-project. org for a full list of funding institutions). R37AG17560 (which funds PEP) and Dr. Gill is supported, in part, by K07AG043587 and P30AG021342.",
year = "2014",
month = feb,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1186/1471-2318-14-25",
language = "English",
volume = "14",
journal = "BMC Geriatrics",
issn = "1471-2318",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
number = "1",
}