Answer questions and earn CME/CNE The concept of frailty has become increasingly
recognized as one of the most important issues in health care and health outcomes and is of …

Over the past 100 years, advances in medicine and public health have led to a nearly 2-fold
increase in average lifespan. 1 Approximately 8.5% of the global population is 65 years or …

Background. Frailty assessment provides a means of identifying older adults most
vulnerable to adverse outcomes. Attention to frailty in clinical practice is more likely with …

Objective Frailty is associated with increased vulnerability to poor health. There is growing
interest in understanding the association between frailty and chronic kidney disease (CKD) …

Importance Growing consensus suggests that frailty-associated risks should inform shared
surgical decision making. However, it is not clear how best to screen for frailty in …

Importance As the US population ages, the number of operations performed on elderly
patients will likely increase. Frailty predicts postoperative mortality and morbidity more than …

We aimed to determine whether frailty, a validated geriatric construct of increased
vulnerability to physiologic stressors, predicts mortality in liver transplant candidates …

A consensus conference on frailty in kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplantation sponsored
by the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and endorsed by the American Society of …

We have previously described strong associations between frailty, a measure of physiologic
reserve initially described and validated in geriatrics, and early hospital readmission as well …

Life participation requiring physical activity and physical function is a key patient-reported
outcome for people receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD). Clinician guidance is required from …