Measuring frailty using claims data for pharmacoepidemiologic studies of mortality in older adults: evidence and recommendations
Population
older adults in pharmacoepidemiologic studies
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May limit causal inference in pharmacoepidemiologic studies of older adults; leaves open the development of validated claims-based frailty indices.
Structured PICO
P
Population
older adults in pharmacoepidemiologic studies
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Intervention
claims-based frailty index for confounding adjustment
More research is needed to develop and apply claims-based frailty indices for confounding adjustment in pharmacoepidemiologic studies of older adults.
Cite This Study
Kim et al. (2014) studied this question.