Introduction: As new treatments have become established, more frail pre-ICU patients are
being admitted to intensive care units (ICUs); this is creating new challenges to provide …

Purpose We aimed to describe the association of two frailty screening tools, the validated
Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) score and the recently described modified Frailty Index (mFI) in …

Background studies comparing different frailty measures in intensive care unit settings are
lacking. We aimed to compare the frailty index based on physiological and laboratory tests …

Purpose Frailty in critical illness is common and associated with poor outcomes, however
little is known about contributing factors. We compared the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) with a …

Frailty is one of the major challenges for intensive care, affecting one-third of intensive care
unit patients and being associated with a range of poor health outcomes. Determination of …

Rationale: Identifying frailty by the presence of a critical number of frailty markers has been
difficult to operationalize in the intensive care unit (ICU), where patients often cannot …

Purpose Frailty is a recent concept used for evaluating elderly individuals. Our study
determined the prevalence of frailty in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and its impact on the …

OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of CFS and a recently developed International
Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10) mFI (ICD-10mFI) as frailty-based predictors of long …

Introduction Frailty is widely acknowledged as influencing health outcomes among critically
ill old patients. Yet, the traditional understanding of its impact has predominantly been …

Background For healthcare systems, an ageing population poses challenges in the delivery
of equitable and effective care. Frailty assessment has the potential to improve care in the …