Importance Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome of significant public health importance,
yet there is limited understanding of the risk of frailty development at a population level …

Older adults are a highly heterogeneous group with variable health and functional life
courses. Frailty has received increasing scientific attention as a potential explanation of the …

Objective The task force of the International Conference of Frailty and Sarcopenia Research
(ICFSR) developed these clinical practice guidelines to overview the current evidence-base …

This narrative review presents a biological rationale and evidence to describe how the
preoperative condition of the patient contributes to postoperative morbidity. Any preoperative …

Cirrhosis is characterized by muscle wasting, malnutrition, and functional decline that confer
excess mortality not well quantified by the Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD) …

Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome characterized by decreased reserve and diminished
resistance to stressors. People with frailty are vulnerable to stressors, and exposure to the …

Importance Patients with frailty have higher risk for postoperative mortality and
complications; however, most research has focused on small groups of high-risk …

Frailty syndrome is prevalent among hospitalized older adults as are the occurrence of
adverse outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated whether frailty in …

Background A barrier to routine preoperative frailty assessment is the large number of frailty
instruments described. Previous systematic reviews estimate the association of frailty with …

Geriatric patients with hip fractures often experience overlap in problems related to nutrition,
including undernutrition, sarcopenia, and frailty. Such problems are powerful predictors of …