The Vulnerable Elders Survey: A Tool for Identifying Vulnerable Older People in the Community
By D. Saliba, M. Elliott, L. Rubenstein, D. Solomon, R. Young, C. Kamberg, RN Carol Roth, C. MacLean, Paul Shekelle, E. Sloss and 1 more. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2001
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Subfields: Epidemiology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Health
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- Frailty Syndrome: A Transitional State in a Dynamic Process (2009, methodology): “to evaluate hospital care in a sample of vulnerable elderly patients. The ACOVE-QIs were designed to evaluate processes of care for a broad set of medical conditions, including general medical conditions (e.g. diabetes mellitus and heart failure) and conditions prevalent in geriatric medicine (e.g. ”
- Screening tools for multidimensional health problems warranting a geriatric assessment in older cancer patients: an update on SIOG recommendations†. (2015, methodology): “The Vulnerable Elders Survey-13 (VES-13) is a 13-item self-administered tool, developed for identifying older people at increased risk of health deterioration in the community [55].”
- The Identification of Frailty: A Systematic Literature Review (2011, methodology): “For example, although some authors have included disability and functional decline as a component of frailty, others regard disability and functional decline as an outcome.(3,27,29,32,34,37,39) When disability is left out of the measure of frailty, a tool emerges that aims to identify risk in a popu”
- Outcome instruments to measure frailty: a systematic review. (2011, methodology): “Strength is represented in eight instruments (40%) (Fried et al., 2001; Mitnitski et al., 2001; Carriere et al., 2005; Studenski et al., 2004; Kiely et al., 2009; Matthews et al., 2004; Saliba et al., 2001; Syddall et al., 2003), energy level in six instruments (30%) (Fried et al.”
- Development and validation of a prognostic index for 4-year mortality in older adults. (2006, background): “These functional domains have been shown in previous studies to be important predictors of institutional care and death.(9,13,14)”
- Mortality prediction with a single general self-rated health question (2006, methodology): “A prediction tool developed by the ACOVE project was designed to identify elders at risk of death in the ensuing year.(35) In the current meta-analysis, we have demonstrated that an array of prediction models that include GSRH employed in community-based studies also predicts subsequent mortality.”