Background Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in critical illness. However, it is unclear
whether frailty screening on admission to the ICU can be conducted routinely at the …

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 …

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 …

Rationale: The prevalence of frailty (diminished physiologic reserve) and its effect on
outcomes for those aged 18 years and older with critical illness is unclear. Objectives: We …

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 …

The concept of frailty has been long established in geriatric medicine, but, more recently,
has been gaining considerable traction in specialist settings including critical care. The …

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 …

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 …

In this issue of Intensive Care Medicine, Le Maguet and colleagues explore the geriatric
syndrome of frailty in the context of critical illness [1]. The term ''frailty''is widely used to …

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 …