Frailty among elderly
Description
This dataset is of project titled Indian Network of population based Surveillance Platform for Influenza and other Respiratory viruses among Elderly (INSPIRE) collected from four site cohorts of community dwelling adults aged 60years or more residing in Ballabgarh, Kolkata, Pune and Chennai. There are three datasets: 1. baseline_data.dta- this dataset has the cohort characteristics and can be used to generate table 1 and supplementary table 1 of the manuscripts. 2. frailty_as_risk.dta- this dataset has quarterly Edmonton Frail Scale assessment survey data for four rounds combined with weekly surveillance data for ALRIs following the survey to assess the risk posed by frailty for causation of ALRI. 3. frailty_as_outcome.dta- this dataset has quarterly Edmonton Frail Scale assessment survey data for four rounds combined with weekly surveillance data for ALRIs episodes that took place before the frailty assessment to estimate the risk of ALRI on frailty.