Failure to complete performance-based measures is associated with poor health status and an increased risk of death
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...Since those unable to complete cognitive [13] or performance-based measures [14] have a worse outcome, inability to complete each test also counted as a deficit....
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...This is defined as restlessness, lethargy, being difficult to arouse or displaying altered environmental perception [26]....
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...To complete coding of functional domains, in view of the association between failure to complete performancebased measures and adverse outcomes [26], an interRAI score of 8 was also coded as 1 full deficit....
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...Other concerns include the relatively high proportion of older adults with significant cognitive and functional limitations (who many would argue are frail) unable to complete these measures(25,26) and the limited specificity of some of these measures....
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...Sir—Mobility impairment is common in elderly people, often leads to adverse outcomes [1–4] and is intertwined with frailty [5, 6]....
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...We did not use the original cutpoints for the TUG, but rather used the performance tertiles....
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...Here, those with missing data on either one of the TUG or FR had worse outcomes than those with poor performance, and those with missing data for both had the worst outcomes....
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...As with those whose performance on both the FR and TUG was impaired, patients with missing data on either or both the FR/TUG were more likely to be older women and to have worse scores for mood, cognition, function and co-morbidity (Table 1)....
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...Kaplan-Meier curves of survival over 5 years for each of the FR (Panel A) and TUG (Panel B) ability and inability groups....
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...However, in three recent investigations of mobility in the elderly, the proportion with missing data varied widely from 1.0 to 19.5% for the FR and 0.7 to 51% for the TUG [10, 13, 23]....
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