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The out-of-sample predictive accuracy was measured by the area under the curve (AUC) from Cox models fitted to 80% training and validated on 20% testing samples.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The EN approach resulted in a 178-item frailty measure including items excluded from the 44-item CD-based measure. The EN based measure was not statistically significantly different from the CD-based approach in terms of predicting mortality (AUC 0.641, 95% CI: 0.637\u20130.644 vs AUC 0.637, 95% CI: 0.634\u20130.641) and permanent care entry (AUC 0.626, 95% CI: 0.624\u20130.629 vs AUC 0.627, 95% CI: 0.625\u20130.63). However, the weighted EN based measure statistically outperforms the weighted CD measure for predicting mortality (AUC 0.774, 95% CI: 0.771\u20130.777 vs AUC 0.757, 95% CI: 0.754\u20130.760) and permanent care entry (AUC 0.676, 95% CI: 0.673\u20130.678 vs AUC 0.671, 95% CI: 0.668\u20130.674).<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The weighted EN and CD-based measures demonstrated similar prediction performance. The CD-based measure items are relevant to frailty measurement and easier to interpret. We recommend using the weighted and unweighted CD-based frailty measures.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/jamia\/ocz210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,11,25]],"date-time":"2019-11-25T12:08:36Z","timestamp":1574683716000},"page":"419-428","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Using elastic nets to estimate frailty burden from routinely collected national aged care data"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9680-8474","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Max","family":"Moldovan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA), Adelaide, Australia"}]},{"given":"Jyoti","family":"Khadka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Healthy Ageing Research Consortium and Registry of Senior Australians, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, 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