A standard procedure for creating a frailty index

SD Searle, A Mitnitski, EA Gahbauer, TM Gill… - BMC geriatrics, 2008 - Springer
… -related health characteristics in older adults. … Here, we noted that the follow up cohort
had frailty index characteristics – frailty index values, rate and limit similar to those of previously …

A frailty index based on common laboratory tests in comparison with a clinical frailty index for older adults in long-term care facilities

K Rockwood, M McMillan, A Mitnitski… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - Elsevier
… tests in a frailty index (FI) to identify older adults at high risk of … community dwelling and
institutionalized older adults. Here, … as a means of grading the severity of frailty in LTC residents. …

Development of a frailty measure for older adults: the frailty index for elders.

C Tocchi, J Dixon, M Naylor… - Journal of nursing …, 2014 - connect.springerpub.com
… a measure to identify frail older adults. Methods: Instrument … (a) Frailty is a complex concept,
(b) the Frailty Index for Elders (… FIFE can be used to study the relationships among frailty

Frailty prevalence using Frailty Index, associated factors and level of agreement among frailty tools in a cohort of Japanese older adults

BA Martins, R Visvanathan, H Barrie, CH Huang… - Archives of gerontology …, 2019 - Elsevier
… The objective of this paper is to investigate the prevalence of frailty by Frailty Indexolder
adults, define risk factors associated with pre-frailty and frailty status and evaluate Frailty Index's

The frailty phenotype and the frailty index: different instruments for different purposes

M Cesari, G Gambassi, G Abellan van Kan… - Age and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… As mentioned, while we may meaningfully estimate the Frailty Index in every individual,
the frailty phenotype may lose some of its clinical relevance when assessed in older persons …

Identification of older adults with frailty in the emergency department using a frailty index: results from a multinational study

AA Brousseau, E Dent, R Hubbard, D Melady… - Age and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… Our objectives were to develop an ED frailty index (FI-ED), … develop and validate an ED-specific
frailty index (FI-ED), defined … disposition as previously described by other frailty indices. …

Physiological redundancy in older adults in relation to the change with age in the slope of a frailty index

K Rockwood, MRH Rockwood… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… a frailty index of 1.0—but closer to 50 (a frailty index value of ∼0.7). Understanding that there
is a limit to how frail an … How, close to its limit, the slope of the frailty index in relation to age …

Reliability of the frailty index among community-dwelling older adults

E Stolz, H Mayerl, J Godin… - The Journals of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
… Background: Consistent and reproducible estimates of the underlying true level of frailty
are … of the frailty index (FI). Methods: A total of 426 community-dwelling older adults from the …

Development of frailty index using ICD-10 codes to predict mortality and rehospitalization of older adults: An update of the multimorbidity frailty index

HY Lai, ST Huang, LK Chen, FY Hsiao - Archives of Gerontology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
… This study aims to develop an updated mFI (multimorbidity frailty index) using ICD-10-CM
codes and to examine the association between frailty and all-cause mortality, unplanned …

Predicting mortality and hospitalization of older adults by the multimorbidity frailty index

YC Wen, LK Chen, FY Hsiao - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… We constructed the multimorbidity frailty index using cumulative deficit approach and …
frailty index quartiles: fit, mild frailty, moderate frailty and severe frailty. The multimorbidity …