Winny Ang, Liesbeth Verpooten, Benedicte De Winter, Katrien Bombeke
Diversity Awareness in Medical Education: An Innovative Training with Visual Reflection Tools
Perspectives on medical education
hiv medicine veterans aging cohort study vacs index associated geriatric syndromes also recently used proxy frailty however using proxy frailty phenotype may inadvertently interchange two different concepts purpose study evaluate extent frailty phenotype may explained index crosssectional analysis included 393 participants hiv aged 50 older somers delta calculated multinomial logistic regression model run determine extent vacs index scores explained probability prefrail frail mean age 576 standard deviation 65 years 873 men weak positive association vacs 20 index score frailty phenotype established somers 0120 p 001 multinomial logistic regression showed prefrail frail participants higher probabilities greater vacs index scores 105 95 confidence intervals ci 101109 p 006 117 95 ci 109126 p 001 respectively however vacs index explained 12 variability observed frailty phenotype high vacs index scores associated greater probability frail however weak association thus cautious using vacs index general proxy frailty particularly frailty phenotype however vacs index may used means identify persons might benefit comprehensive geriatric assessment