“…In a general medical population, ischaemic heart disease, cancer, and COPD are likely to have the greatest impact on mortality;cirrhosis, mortality may be influenced more by kidney disease, infections, falls, delirium, and social determinants of health. 25 , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] Compared with the other indices, HFRS is unique in its inclusion of social conditions, infections, falls/trauma, and dementia/delirium. Furthermore, although kidney disease and/or fluid and electrolyte disorders are present in all four indices, we note striking differences in their prevalence’s across the indices.…”