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 …

Frailty represents one of the most critical issues facing health care due to its inherent
relationship with poor health care outcomes. Frailty is present in 10% to 20% of individuals …

Older adults can suffer acute illness or injury. When they do, their acute needs must be
addressed. An important part of addressing these needs is to understand which people are …

There is general agreement that frailty is a state of heightened vulnerability to stressors
arising from impairments in multiple systems leading to declines in homeostatic reserve and …

Background/objective Emergency department (ED) visits have declined while excess
mortality, not attributable to COVID‐19, has grown. It is not known whether older adults are …

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BACKGROUND Frailty syndrome (FS) is a well-established predictor of outcomes in geriatric
patients. The aim of this study was to quantify the prevalence of FS in geriatric trauma …

Background Failure to rescue (FTR) is considered as an index of quality of care provided by
a hospital. However, the role of frailty in FTR remains unclear. We hypothesized that the FTR …

BACKGROUND Frailty is a risk factor for mortality among the elderly. However, evidence
from longitudinal studies linking trauma and frailty is fragmented, and a comprehensive …

Background Although many frailty scales exist, a single scale has not been agreed upon to
define frailty. Herein, we determined whether the Canadian Study on Health and Aging …