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- A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people (2005) (5342)
- Measuring health: A guide to rating scales and questionnaires, 3rd ed. (1987) (3608)
- Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease: a prospective analysis from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (2002) (1254)
- Prevalence and severity of cognitive impairment with and without dementia in an elderly population (1997) (972)
- A brief clinical instrument to classify frailty in elderly people (1999) (821)
- Prevalence, attributes, and outcomes of fitness and frailty in community-dwelling older adults: report from the Canadian study of health and aging. (2004) (535)
- Use of lipid-lowering agents, indication bias, and the risk of dementia in community-dwelling elderly people. (2002) (521)
- Prevalence and outcomes of vascular cognitive impairment (2000) (347)
- Measures of self-perceived well-being. (2010) (313)
- Diabetes mellitus and the Risk of Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease and Vascular Cognitive Impairment in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2002) (312)
- Community screening for dementia: the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) and Modified Mini-Mental State Exam (3MS) compared. (1997) (308)
- Neuropsychological tests accurately predict incident Alzheimer disease after 5 and 10 years (2005) (266)
- Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Modified MMSE (3MS): A psychometric comparison and normative data. (1996) (262)
- Canadian study of health and aging (1992) (250)
- Progression of impairment in patients with vascular cognitive impairment without dementia (2001) (237)
- Conceptualizing the healthscape: contributions of time geography, location technologies and spatial ecology to place and health research. (2010) (211)
- Factors Associated with Institutionalization of Older People in Canada: Testing a Multifactorial Definition of Frailty (1996) (208)
- Measuring Chronic Patients’ Feelings of Being a Burden to their Caregivers: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Scale (2003) (179)
- Multidimensionality in instrumental and basic activities of daily living. (1998) (159)
- Prevalence and outcomes of vascular cognitive impairment. Vascular Cognitive Impairment Investigators of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (2000) (149)
- Alzheimer’s disease: Insights from epidemiology (2001) (149)
- The feasibility of establishing correction factors to adjust self-reported estimates of obesity. (2008) (137)
- Mapping the connections between education and dementia (2007) (133)
- Comparison of three methods of recalling patients for influenza vaccination. (1986) (130)
- Computerized reminders to encourage cervical screening in family practice. (1989) (130)
- Reported activities of daily living: agreement between elderly subjects with and without dementia and their caregivers. (1997) (126)
- Standardization of the diagnosis of dementia in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (1996) (123)
- Development Standards for Health Measures (1996) (116)
- Psychological Well-being (2006) (113)
- The Theoretical and Technical Foundations of Health Measurement (1996) (99)
- Use of reminders to increase compliance with tetanus booster vaccination. (1992) (98)
- A Randomized Trial of Computerized Reminders for Blood Pressure Screening in Primary Care (1989) (97)
- Prediction of probable Alzheimer disease in patients with symptoms suggestive of memory impairment. Value of the Mini-Mental State Examination. (2000) (89)
- Perspectives on family health, happiness and harmony (3H) among Hong Kong Chinese people: a qualitative study. (2012) (86)
- Caring for elderly people at home: the consequences to caregivers. (1997) (85)
- More Than the Epidemiology of Alzheimer's Disease: Contributions of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2004) (80)
- A Comparison of Four Methods for Detecting Differential Item Functioning in Ordered Response Items (2005) (80)
- Psychometric Evaluation of the Chinese Version of the Subjective Happiness Scale: Evidence from the Hong Kong FAMILY Cohort (2014) (79)
- Use of reminders for preventive procedures in family medicine. (1991) (77)
- The Millon Inventories: Clinical and Personality Assessment (1999) (75)
- Cognitive decline in high-functioning older adults: Reserve or ascertainment bias? (2003) (72)
- Prevalence and predictors of depression in elderly Canadians: The Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (2005) (71)
- Cognitive scores, even within the normal range, predict death and institutionalization. (2002) (70)
- Development of a wearable global positioning system for place and health research (2008) (69)
- Performance of the international physical activity questionnaire (short form) in subgroups of the Hong Kong chinese population (2011) (66)
- Subject characteristics and long term post-program smoking cessation. (1988) (64)
- Mental health during and after protests, riots and revolutions: A systematic review (2020) (61)
- On the measurement of happiness. An examination of the Bradburn scale in the Canada Health Survey. (1982) (60)
- Incidence and outcomes of diabetes mellitus in elderly people: report from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (2000) (59)
- Sleep Disturbances and Mortality: Results from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (58)
- An Overview of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (58)
- On the classification of population health measurements. (2004) (53)
- A method for self-assessment of disability before and after hip replacement operations. (1978) (51)
- General Health Status and Quality of Life (2006) (51)
- Living Long and Keeping Well: Elderly Canadians Account for Success in Aging* (2007) (49)
- Cohort Profile: FAMILY Cohort. (2017) (49)
- Initial emergency department trauma scores from the OPALS study: the case for the motor score in blunt trauma. (2004) (43)
- Culturally Safe Epidemiology: Oxymoron or Scientific Imperative. (2010) (43)
- Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in elderly people in Canada: report from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (1998) (43)
- Prediction of all-cause dementia using neuropsychological tests within 10 and 5 years of diagnosis in a community-based sample. (2011) (42)
- Depressive symptoms in people with chronic physical conditions: prevalence and risk factors in a Hong Kong community sample (2012) (42)
- An Integrated Framework for Risk Management and Population Health (2007) (41)
- Blending qualitative and quantitative study methods in health services research (1998) (39)
- Canadian Study of Health and Aging: Study Description and Patterns of Early Cognitive Decline (2004) (37)
- Study Sampling in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (36)
- Increased risk of depression in COPD patients with higher education and income (2005) (34)
- Dementia among seniors. (1996) (33)
- Correlates of Nonparticipation in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (32)
- Structure and validity of Family Harmony Scale: An instrument for measuring harmony. (2014) (30)
- For non-exercising people, the number of steps walked is more strongly associated with health than time spent walking. (2013) (29)
- A cluster analysis of patterns of objectively measured physical activity in Hong Kong (2012) (29)
- The Canadian Study of Health and Aging: Organizational Lessons From a National, Multicenter, Epidemiologic Study (2001) (29)
- From risk factors to explanation in public health. (2008) (29)
- Health status: patient and physician judgments. (1976) (28)
- The Derivation and Validation of the Ottawa 3D and Ottawa 3DY Three- and Four-Question Screens for Cognitive Impairment (2008) (25)
- Interpretation of arm circumference as an indicator of nutritional status. (1982) (24)
- Income inequality and health in Ontario: a multilevel analysis. (2005) (20)
- Understanding the Influence of the Complex Relationships among Informal and Formal Supports on the Well-Being of Caregivers of Persons with Dementia (2005) (19)
- Estimating Antemortem Cognitive Status of Deceased Subjects in a Longitudinal Study of Dementia (2001) (19)
- Considerations for Measuring Functioning of the Elderly: IRM Dimensionality and Scaling Analysis (2001) (18)
- A follow-up study of patients advised to obtain influenza immunizations. (1990) (18)
- A randomized trial of three approaches to smoking cessation. (1985) (18)
- Problems and new directions in the evaluation of primary care. (1976) (16)
- Documenting smoking Status: Trial of three strategies. (1992) (15)
- Development and Validation of an Indicator of Support for Community-Residing Older Canadians (2001) (13)
- The Sustainability of Population Health (2005) (13)
- Data Collected in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (12)
- Lipid-Lowering Agents and the Risk of Cognitive Impairment That Does Not Meet Criteria for Dementia, in Relation to Apolipoprotein E Status (2007) (12)
- Mental Status Testing (2006) (11)
- Optimal cut-points when screening for more than one disease state: an example from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (1996) (10)
- Research on Alzheimer's caregiving in Canada: current status and future directions. (2004) (10)
- Evaluation of Nutrition Education in Africa: Community Research in Uganda, 1971–1972 (1979) (10)
- Income Inequality and Health in Ontario (2005) (10)
- Mortality and cognitive status among elderly Canadians living in the community and in institutions: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. (1997) (10)
- Study Organization in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (8)
- Potential and limitations of data and methods in health risk appraisal: risk factor selection and measurement. (1987) (8)
- Man the risk taker. (1988) (7)
- The healthstyles health promotion program: description and behavioural outcomes. (1988) (6)
- A primer on population health: a new resource for students and clinicians. (2011) (6)
- Screening for disability. An examination of the O.E.C.D. Survey questions in a Canadian study. (1981) (6)
- Survey measurements of emotional well-being: the health opinion survey and the Bradburn scale compared. (1985) (6)
- The Entropy of Health and Disease: Dementia in Canada (1997) (6)
- Use of Medical Care after a Community—Based Health Promotion Program: A Quasi-Experimental Study (1995) (6)
- Estimating the combined effect of several disease precursors in health risk appraisal. (1987) (6)
- Differential prediction of vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in nondemented older adults within 5 years of initial testing (2012) (6)
- From Counting to Understanding: The Evolving Epidemiologic Approach to Dementia (2004) (6)
- Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CaSHA). (1990) (5)
- Social environment and outpatient recovery from malnutrition. (1975) (5)
- Screening for psychosocial problems among primary care patients: a pilot study. (1987) (5)
- Healthstyles: moving beyond disease prevention. (1984) (4)
- Environmental risk factors in outpatient recovery from malnutrition (1977) (4)
- Effects of Screening Errors and Differential Mortality on the Estimation of the Incidence of Dementia in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (4)
- Requesting a unique personal identifier or providing a souvenir incentive did not affect overall consent to health record linkage: evidence from an RCT nested within a cohort. (2017) (3)
- S2-02-05 Use of lipid lowering agents and the risk of cognitive impairment, not dementiain relation to apolipoprotein E status (2004) (2)
- The validity of health risk appraisal. (1982) (2)
- Mortality and Cognitive Status Among Elderly Canadians Living in the Community and in Institutions: The Canadian Study of Health and Aging (1997) (2)
- The thirty-item screening scale: a survey measurement of low-level disability. (1983) (2)
- A randomised factorial design to assess the effect of survey mode and question wording on measuring family harmony: Evidence from the family cohort (2013) (2)
- Dilemmas in evaluating behaviour-change strategies in disease prevention. (1984) (2)
- Technical Papers in Support of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (2001) (2)
- Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Subjective Happiness Scale (2013) (1)
- Correcting Self-Reported Estimates of Obesity: Can We More Closely Approximate Measured Values? 1 (2008) (1)
- Shaped by asymmetrical interdependence: a qualitative case study of the external influences on international non-governmental organizations’ implementation of equity principles in HIV/AIDS work (2014) (1)
- 77 SCORE ADJUSTMENTS FOR DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING IN SCREENING FOR DEMENTIA: CASE OF THE CSHA STUDY (2005) (1)
- Diabetes mellitus and the incidence of dementia in the Canadian study of health and aging (2000) (1)
- Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Morisky medication adherence scale: evidence from the family cohort (2013) (1)
- Nutrition education in Uganda (1974) (1)
- 89 SCORE ADJUSTMENTS FOR DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING IN SCREENING FOR DEMENTIA: CASE OF THE CSHA STUDY (2005) (0)
- Culturally Safe Epidemiology : Oxymoron or Scientific Imperative 1 (2010) (0)
- Accounting for the Distribution of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Ontario: A Hierarchical Analysis of Provincial and Local Outcomes (2013) (0)
- Physical activity as a protective factor for health-related quality of life among people experiencing stressful life events (2012) (0)
- Cognitive impairment in the elderly. (1991) (0)
- Perceived neighborhood cohesion (NC) and education: Individual and combined effects on daily smoking and heavier drinking in Hong Kong Chinese (2013) (0)
- Family Harmony Scale (2016) (0)
- Review articles Measures of self-perceived well-being (2010) (0)
- Family satisfaction, chronic conditions and depressive symptoms in a community sample: The Hong FAMILY project (2012) (0)
- Perceived social cohesion and education: individual and combined effects on daily smoking and heavier drinking in Hong Kong Chinese females and males (2012) (0)
- Self-Perceived Burden Scale (2018) (0)
- Validating the Family Harmony Scale in Hong Kong Chinese: Jockey Club FAMILY Project (2013) (0)
- Factors associated with depressive symptoms in a Hong Kong community sample of people with chronic physical conditions (2012) (0)
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