The prevalence and health consequences of frailty in a population-based older home care cohort: a comparison of different measures

Table 5 Comparison of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) for models using different frailty measures

Outcome	Model predictors	AUC (95 % CI)	P-Value
Death	Age, sex, and comorbidity	0.604 (0.601, 0.607)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and CHESS scale	0.658 (0.655, 0.660)	0.566
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and modified frailty index	0.652 (0.649, 0.655)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and full frailty index	0.657 (0.654, 0.660)	Reference
LTC admission	Age, sex, and comorbidity	0.573 (0.570, 0.576)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and CHESS scale	0.617 (0.614, 0.620)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and modified frailty index	0.688 (0.685, 0.690)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and full frailty index	0.698 (0.695, 0.701)	Reference
Hospitalization	Age, sex, and comorbidity	0.588 (0.586, 0.591)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and CHESS scale	0.607 (0.605, 0.609)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and modified frailty index	0.599 (0.597, 0.601)	0.005
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and full frailty index	0.600 (0.597, 0.602)	Reference
Hospitalization with ALC stay^a	Age, sex, and comorbidity	0.578 (0.574, 0.581)	<.001
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and CHESS scale	0.602 (0.599, 0.606)	0.999
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and modified frailty index	0.600 (0.596, 0.603)	0.002
	Age, sex, comorbidity, and full frailty index	0.602 (0.599, 0.606)	Reference

AUC Area Under the receiver operating characteristic Curve, ALC Alternative Level of Care, CI Confidence Interval, ED Emergency Department
a – Individuals hospitalized without an ALC stay removed from analysis (N = 66,764)

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