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- Dictionaryfrailty/ˈfreɪlti/
noun
- 1. the condition of being weak and delicate: "the increasing frailty of old age" Similar Opposite
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2 days ago · Background Older patients living with frailty have an increased risk for adverse events. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a 9-point frailty assessment instrument that has shown promise to identify frail emergency department (ED) patients at increased risk of adverse outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between CFS scores and 30-day mortality in an ED setting ...
- Frailty or frailties: exploring frailty index subdimensions in the ...
Background Frailty, a state of increased vulnerability to...
- Frailty or frailties: exploring frailty index subdimensions in the ...
3 days ago · Background Frailty, a state of increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes, has garnered significant attention in research and clinical practice. Existing constructs aggregate clinical features or health deficits into a single score. While simple and interpretable, this approach may overlook the complexity of frailty and not capture the full range of variation between individuals ...
2 days ago · The prevalence of frailty assessment using this tool was reported as 69.4% by Shang et al, which closely aligns with our findings. Citation 13 Another two studies reported a prevalence of 33.6% to 36.8%, where frailty was defined as a CFS score of 5 or higher. Citation 9, Citation 19
3 days ago · A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 that reported the global, regional, and national burden of bone fractures in 204 countries and territories, from 1990 to 2019, stated that fractures in older adults constitute the majority of fractures. 1 Fragility fractures of the pelvis (FFP) occur primarily in older individuals, and the frequency of these injuries is ...
2 days ago · At the outset, we needed to define (frailty) virtual wards (VWs) and agreed a definition from the literature: ‘Virtual’, here, means the MDTs plan each patient’s care remotely (it is not intended to signify remote patient monitoring, which was rarely found for frailty VWs). We considered VWs as service delivery under one ‘virtual roof’.
1 day ago · Although frailty is increasingly common in CR/PR participants, Dr. Forman says how to measure and account for this condition as part of care is the topic of much debate. “Frailty has been defined in different ways, but it involves weakening and diminished resilience,” he explains.
1 day ago · Secondary outcomes assessed changes to target medications at 6, 9, 12, and 15 months of follow-up, including discontinuation (defined as no prescription fill for 90 days), sustained discontinuation (defined as no prescription fill for 180 days), and dose reduction (defined as mean standardized daily dose [SDD] for 90 days after the time point ...
