Background Frail older adults experience higher rates of adverse health outcomes.
Therefore, assessing pre-hospital frailty early in the course of care is essential to identify the …

Background Frailty is a common condition present in older Emergency Department (ED)
patients that is associated with poor health outcomes. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a …

Background The ability of acute care providers to cope with the influx of frail older patients is
increasingly stressed, and changes need to be made to improve care provided to older …

Objectives Data for the assessment of frailty in acutely ill hospitalized older adults remains
limited. Using the Frailty Index (FI) as “gold standard,” we compared (1) the diagnostic …

Background Older adults use more health-care services per capita than younger age groups
and the older adult population varies greatly in its needs. Evidence suggests that there is a …

Background Increasing frailty is associated with risk of mortality and functional decline in
hospitalized older adults, but there is no consensus on the best screening method for use by …

Purpose There is a considerable need to measure frailty retrospectively in clinical practice
and research. We assessed agreement, accuracy, precision, and reliability of retrospectively …

Background: the clinical frailty scale (CFS) was validated as a predictor of adverse outcomes
in community-dwelling older people. In our hospital, the use of the CFS in emergency …

Aim Frail individuals may be at higher risk of death from a given acute illness severity (AIS),
but this relationship has not been studied in an English National Health Service (NHS) acute …

Objective frailty is a central concept in geriatric medicine, yet its utility in the Emergency
Department (ED) is not well understood nor well utilised. Our objectives were to develop an …