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- Title
Using mortality risk scores for long-term prognosis of nursing home residents: caution is recommended.
- Authors
Kruse, Robin L; Parker Oliver, Debra; Mehr, David R; Petroski, Gregory F; Swenson, Denise L; Zweig, Steven C
- Abstract
Determining prognosis for nursing home residents is important for care planning, but reliable prediction is difficult. We compared performance of four long-term mortality risk indices for nursing home residents-the Minimum Data Set Mortality Risk Index (MMRI), a recent revision to this index (MMRI-R), and the original and revised Flacker-Kiely models.
- Publication
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2010, Vol 65, Issue 11, p1235
- ISSN
1758-535X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/gerona/glq120