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Risk Stratification of Elderly Patients Undergoing Spinal Surgery Using the Modified Frailty Index

Barry Ting Sheen Kweh MBBS, Hui Qing Lee BMSc, MBBS, Terence Tan BMSc, MBBS, Kim Siong Tew MBBS et al. • Global Spine Journal (2023)

Study Design: Retrospective cohort. Objectives: To validate the 11-item modified Frailty Index (mFI) as a perioperative risk stratification tool in elderly patients undergoing spine surgery. Methods: All consecutive cases of spine surgery i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/2192568221999650

Cohort profile: the Taiwan Initiative for Geriatric Epidemiological Research - a prospective cohort study on cognition

Pei-Iun Hsieh, Te-Hsuan Huang, Jeng-Min Chiou, Jen-Hau Chen et al. • Epidemiology and Health (2024)

The Taiwan Initiative for Geriatric Epidemiological Research (TIGER) was founded in 2011 to elucidate the interrelationships among various predictors of global and domain-specific cognitive impairment, with the aim of identifying older adul...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2024057

Charlson comorbidity index has no incremental value for mortality risk prediction in nursing home residents with COVID-19 disease

Anum Zahra, Maarten van Smeden, Petra J. M. Elders, Jan Festen et al. • BMC Geriatrics (2025)

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing home (NH) residents faced the highest risk of severe COVID-19 disease and mortality. Due to their frailty status, comorbidity burden can serve as a useful predictive indicator of vul...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-025-05721-2

Correlation between frailty and reduction in cortical thickness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ayumi Fukatsu-Chikumoto, Tsunahiko Hirano, Shun Takahashi, Takuya Ishida et al. • Scientific Reports (2024)

Abstract Physical inactivity and cognitive impairment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can lead to frailty and poor prognoses. However, little is known regarding the association between frailty and the human bra...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53933-0

The Challenge of Cultural Gerontology

Julia Twigg, Wendy E. Martin • The Gerontologist (2014)

Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W. (Eds.) (2015). The Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology. London: Routledge). Reflecting the wider...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnu061

Evaluating key predictors of breast cancer through survival: a comparison of AFT frailty models with LASSO, ridge, and elastic net regularization

Senyefia Bosson-Amedenu, Emmanuel Ayitey, Francis Ayiah-Mensah, Luyton Asare • BMC Cancer (2025)

Abstract Background Frailty models are extensively utilized in survival analysis to address unobserved heterogeneity among individuals. However, selecting the most robust model for survival prediction, especially in the context of high-dime...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12885-025-14040-z