Multimorbidity-Weighted Index

  • Population: Community-dwelling adults aged 54-89 years.
  • Outcome: 4-to-8-year physical functioning decline and 10-year all-cause mortality.
  • Scroll to the bottom for more detailed information.

Risk Calculator

2. Does your patient have any of the following diseases?

• Dementia/Alzheimer disease
 
• Stroke
 
• Chronic lung disease (COPD)
 
• Hypertension
 
• Angina
 
• Myocardial infarction
 
• Congestive heart failure
 
• Arrhythmia
 
• Other heart condition
 
• Diabetes
 
• Cancer excluding skin
 
• Arthritis (Osteoarthritis or Rheumatoid)
 
• Knee replacement
 
• Hip replacement
 
• Connective tissue disease (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Sjogren's Disease, Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis)
 
• Glaucoma
 
• Chronic kidney disease
 
• Herniated disc
 
• Cirrhosis
 
• PE/DVT
 
• AIDS
 
• Multiple sclerosis
 
• Parkinson's disease
 
• ALS
 
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  • This index was developed in national samples of community-dwelling adults from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) I and NHS II, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS). A total of 216,890 participants contributed 612,592 observations of data between 1992-2008. Participants had a mean age of 55 (26% were aged 65 years or older), mean Short Form-36 physical functioning scale of 51 (1 point above US norms), and 94% were white.
  • The index was internally validated by bootstrapping, or resampling with replacement of observations of data from the original sample.
  • The index was externally validated in 20,509 respondents in the nationally-representative Health and Retirement Study in 2010 (mean age 65, 54% women, 78% white).

For men:

  • Discrimination: This risk calculator sorts patients who died from patients who lived correctly 70% of the time (c-statistic).
    moderate
  • Calibration: The model was well calibrated across all risk levels except those in the bottom 10% risk group, where the observed experienced 20% lower mortality than expected.

For women:

  • Discrimination: This risk calculator sorts patients who died from patients who lived correctly 68% of the time (c-statistic).
    moderate
  • Calibration: The model was well calibrated across all risk levels except those in the bottom 20% risk group, where the observed experienced 15% lower mortality than expected.
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