RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Case finding in elderly people: validation of a postal questionnaire.
JF British Journal of General Practice
JO Br J Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 100
OP 104
VO 41
IS 344
A1 I Bowns
A1 D Challis
A1 M S Tong
YR 1991
UL http://bjgp.org/content/41/344/100.abstract
AB A continuing concern of primary care is to produce economical methods of case finding among elderly patients to reduce unmet need in practice populations. This paper reports the use of a postal questionnaire to identify high dependency groups and the use of statistical methods to produce a formula which weights the relative importance of different items in identifying patients with a high level of dependency. It appears possible to identify such high dependency cases reliably at the cost of assessing between one half and two thirds of the population aged 75 years and over.