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Standard laboratory tests to identify older adults at increased risk of death

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, October 2014
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Title
Standard laboratory tests to identify older adults at increased risk of death
Published in
BMC Medicine, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12916-014-0171-9
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Authors

Susan E Howlett, Michael RH Rockwood, Arnold Mitnitski, Kenneth Rockwood

Abstract

Older adults are at an increased risk of death, but not all people of the same age have the same risk. Many methods identify frail people (that is, those at increased risk) but these often require time-consuming interactions with health care providers. We evaluated whether standard laboratory tests on their own, or added to a clinical frailty index (FI), could improve identification of older adults at increased risk of death.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 138 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 20 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 9%
Student > Master 13 9%
Other 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Other 41 29%
Unknown 30 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 48 35%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 5%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 40 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2023.
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#2,447,872
of 24,618,500 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,600
of 3,806 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,202
of 260,223 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#37
of 87 outputs
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