Pra item | Original Pra score | Modified Pra score |
---|---|---|
Age | GP record | GP record |
Gender | GP record | GP record |
Presence of diabetes mellitus | GP record | GP record |
Presence of coronary heart disease | GP record | GP record |
Self-rated health | Postal questionnaire | Excluded |
Formal caregiver availability | Postal questionnaire (proxy of high social support on Lubben's social network scale) | Excluded |
>6 physician visits over previous year | GP record | GP record |
Emergency hospital admission previous year | GP record | GP record |
Multimorbidity measure: RxRisk-V | Excluded | Linked pharmacy claims database |
GP, general practice; Pra, Probability of repeated admission.