Background Frailty is increasingly recognized as an important construct which has health
implications for older adults. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a judgement-based frailty …

Frailty describes an individual's vulnerability to adverse health outcomes and is a useful
construct that assists health professionals to understand the heterogeneity of the ageing …

The key idea behind the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is that, as people age, they are more
likely to have things wrong with them. Those things they have wrong (health deficits) can, as …

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 …

Background we investigated whether two frailty tools predicted mortality among emergency
department (ED) patients referred to internal medicine and how the level of illness acuity …

Background Frailty is a common and clinically significant condition among geriatric
populations. Although well-evidenced pooled estimates of the prevalence of frailty exist …

The notion of frailty has evolved for more than 15 years. Although there is no consensus
definition, frailty reflects a state of increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes for …

Study objective We validate the Clinical Frailty Scale by examining its independent
predictive validity for 30-day mortality, ICU admission, and hospitalization and by …

Background Guidelines recommend routine frailty screening for all hospitalised older adults
to inform care decisions, based mainly on studies in elective or speciality-specific settings …

Background One of the most challenging issues for the elderly population is the clinical state
of frailty. Frailty is defined as a cumulative decline across psychological, physical, and social …