Discrepancies in the Prevalence of Known Frailty Scales: Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study

Article information

Ann Geriatr Med Res. 2018;22(4):208-208

Publication date (electronic) : 2018 December 31

doi : https://doi.org/10.4235/agmr.18.0049

Kyoung Jin Kim ¹, Jinyoung Shin ¹, Jaekyung Choi ¹, Chang Won Won ²

¹Department of Family Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

²Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

[Related article:] Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research 2018;22(3):137–144

https://doi.org/10.4235/agmr.2018.22.3.137

To the editor,

In the initially published version of this article,1) we overlooked the data on the lowest prevalence of frailty and prevalence rates that were provided in some original studies. We hereby modify the result for the lowest prevalence of frailty from the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging Frailty Index to the Study of Osteoporotic Fracture frailty index (2.4% of women and 2.6% of men). Regarding the frailty prevalence rates in the original studies, we hereby modify the prevalence of frailty in the Korean Frailty Index from 23.1% to 21.3%, which was reported in a validation study,2) and from 21.3% to 14.1% for the Frailty Instrument.3) We sincerely apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article whatsoever.

Best Regards,

Jaekyung Choi

References

1. Kim KJ, Shin J, Choi J, Won CW. Discrepancies in the prevalence of known frailty scales: Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study. Ann Geriatr Med Res 2018;22:137–44. 10.4235/agmr.2018.22.3.137.

2. Hwang HS, Kwon IS, Park BJ, Cho B, Yoon JL, Won CW. The validity and reliability of Korean Frailty Index. J Korean Geriatr Soc 2010;14:191–202. 10.4235/jkgs.2010.14.4.191.

3. Kim C, Sunwoo D. A frailty instrument to predict disability, institutionalization, and mortality: findings from the living profiles of older people survey. J Korean Gerontol Soc 2015;35:451–74.

Article information Continued

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.