Elena Andina-Díaz, Lindsay Welch, José Siles-González, Nestor Serrano-Fuentes, Ana Isabel Gutiérrez-García, MCarmen Solano-Ruiz
Photovoice: An active learning tool with community nursing students
Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)
numerous studies revealed agerelated inequalities colorectal cancer care increasing levels frailty ageing population may contributing quantifying frailty populationbased studies challenging assess feasibility validity reliability hospital frailty risk score hfrs secondary care administrative records frailty scarf index frailty syndromes fs measures national colorectal cancer cohort retrospective populationbased study using 136008 patients colorectal cancer treated within english national health service measure generated dataset assess feasibility diagnostic codes used measure compared charlson comorbidity index cci validity assessed using prevalence frailty relationship 1year survival brier score cstatistic used assess performance discriminative ability models included measure measures demonstrated feasibility validity reliability diagnostic codes used scarf cci considerable overlap prevalence frailty determined differed scarf allocating 554 population lowest risk group compared 851 hfrs 812 fs hfrs fs demonstrated greatest difference 1year overall survival lowest highest measured levels frailty differences model performance marginal hfrs scarf fs value quantifying frailty routine administrative health care datasets suitable measure depend context requirements individual epidemiological study