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 …

Frailty syndrome is prevalent among hospitalized older adults as are the occurrence of
adverse outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated whether frailty in …

We compared prevalence estimates and prognostication if frailty were defined using the face‐
to‐face Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) or the administrative‐data‐derived Hospital Frailty Risk …

Objectives Recently, the Hospital Frailty Risk Score based on a derivation and validation
study in the UK has been proposed as a low-cost, systematic screening tool to identify older …

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 …

Background Older people are increasing users of health care globally. We aimed to
establish whether older people with characteristics of frailty and who are at risk of adverse …

Background: the clinical frailty scale (CFS) was validated as a predictor of adverse outcomes
in community-dwelling older people. In our hospital, the use of the CFS in emergency …

Few studies have focused on frailty as a predictor of mortality and readmission among
inpatients in the acute care setting, especially over long follow-up periods. We conducted …

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

Background Increasing frailty is associated with risk of mortality and functional decline in
hospitalized older adults, but there is no consensus on the best screening method for use by …