… Second, the population of older patients … older inpatients, particularly those managed by
general physicians in other settings. Similarly, our findings cannot be generalized beyond older …

… on frailty scales, we chose to adapt the Edmonton Frail Scale [5], … We developed the
Reported Edmonton Frail Scale (REFS) (… Frail Scale to measure frailty in older acute inpatients. …

… of frailty nor the outcomes reported in trials involving frail older inpatients. The inconsistent
findings of complex interventions to improve outcomes for frail older inpatients limit the ability …

… In contrast, the internal consistency of the Reported Edmonton Frail Scale (REFS) was
shown to be lower (0.68) although interrater reliability by means of Kappa was found to be 0.83 (…

… determined using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was a … of 3 frailty scales in identifying
frailty, using the Frailty Index (FI) of … to better optimize inpatient care of frail older adults, and to …

… The main findings of the present study were that frail elder inpatients in China had the
characteristics of older age, lower SPPB scores, higher D-dimer and fibrinogen levels, and lower …

… The clinical frailty scale (CFS) is a measure of frailty based on clinical judgement. A validation
study of the CFS in community-dwelling older people showed that it performed better than …

… the inpatient setting is the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) (Figure 1), which is a simple face to face
clinician assessment of frailty … The Clinical Frailty Scale predicts inpatient mortality in older …

… In this study of COVID-19 in older inpatients in a university hospital in Spain, CFS-defined
frailty was independently associated with atypical clinical presentation on admission, with less …

… Frailty is an ageing-related state of vulnerability to stressor events [1]. Identifying and
quantifying frailty is crucial among older inpatients, and many cumulative frailty assessment tools …