TY - JOUR
T1 - Correction to
T2 - A cross-sectional study examining convergent validity of a frailty index based on electronic medical records in a Canadian primary care program (BMC Geriatrics (2019) 19 (109) DOI: 10.1186/s12877-019-1119-x)
AU - Abbasi, Marjan
AU - Khera, Sheny
AU - Dabravolskaj, Julia
AU - Vandermeer, Ben
AU - Theou, Olga
AU - Rolfson, Darryl
AU - Clegg, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s).
PY - 2019/5/13
Y1 - 2019/5/13
N2 - Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported a typesetting error in the "Results" section. Although the frailty index is meant to be used as a continuous score [25], to describe different frailty levels as defined by the FI-CGA and eFI, we used proposed cut-off scores identified using stratum specific likelihood ratios by Hoover et al. [26] that had been validated in a sample of community dwelling seniors in Canada: non-frail (0 to ≤0.1), vulnerable (> 0.1 to ≤0.21), frail (> 0.21 to < 0.45), and most frail (> 0.45) [26]. However, due to low frequency of scores of 0.1 and less (only one person), we merged non-frail and vulnerable categories as following: non-frail (0 to ≤0.21), frail (> 0.21to < 0.45), and most frail (> 0.45 ≥0.45). The final value for both sentences should in fact read: "most frail (≥0.45)." The original article has been corrected, and the publisher apologizes to the authors and readers for any inconvenience.
AB - Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported a typesetting error in the "Results" section. Although the frailty index is meant to be used as a continuous score [25], to describe different frailty levels as defined by the FI-CGA and eFI, we used proposed cut-off scores identified using stratum specific likelihood ratios by Hoover et al. [26] that had been validated in a sample of community dwelling seniors in Canada: non-frail (0 to ≤0.1), vulnerable (> 0.1 to ≤0.21), frail (> 0.21 to < 0.45), and most frail (> 0.45) [26]. However, due to low frequency of scores of 0.1 and less (only one person), we merged non-frail and vulnerable categories as following: non-frail (0 to ≤0.21), frail (> 0.21to < 0.45), and most frail (> 0.45 ≥0.45). The final value for both sentences should in fact read: "most frail (≥0.45)." The original article has been corrected, and the publisher apologizes to the authors and readers for any inconvenience.
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U2 - 10.1186/s12877-019-1144-9
DO - 10.1186/s12877-019-1144-9
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 31084609
AN - SCOPUS:85065640138
SN - 1471-2318
VL - 19
JO - BMC Geriatrics
JF - BMC Geriatrics
IS - 1
M1 - 133
ER -