The Synergistic Effect of Functional Status and Comorbidity Burden on Mortality: A 16-Year Survival Analysis

Cynthia Chen, Isaac Sia, Hon-ming Ma, Bee Choo Tai, Angela Cheong, Ngan Phoon Fong, Shi Yu Julia Tan, Kin Ming Chan, Boon Yeow Tan, Edward Menon, Chye Hua Ee, Kok Keng Lee, Yee Sien Ng, Yik Ying Teo, Stefan Ma, Derrick Heng and Gerald Choon-Huat Koh

PLOS ONE, 2014, vol. 9, issue 8, 1-9

Abstract: Objectives: The relationship between disability and comorbidity on mortality is widely perceived as additive in clinical models of frailty. Design: National data were retrospectively extracted from medical records of community hospital. Data Sources: There were of 12,804 acutely-disabled patients admitted for inpatient rehabilitation in Singapore rehabilitation community hospitals from 1996 through 2005 were followed up for death till 31 December 2011. Outcome Measure: Cox proportional-hazards regression to assess the interaction of comorbidity and disability at discharge on all-cause mortality. Results: During a median follow-up of 10.9 years, there were 8,565 deaths (66.9%). The mean age was 73.0 (standard deviation: 11.5) years. Independent risk factors of mortality were higher comorbidity (p

Date: 2014
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0106248 (text/html)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id= ... 06248&type=printable (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:plo:pone00:0106248

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106248

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in PLOS ONE from Public Library of Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by plosone ().