Background Frail older adults experience higher rates of adverse health outcomes.
Therefore, assessing pre-hospital frailty early in the course of care is essential to identify the …

Traditional approaches to clinical risk assessment utilize age as a marker of increased
vulnerability to stress. Relatively recent advancements in the study of aging have led to the …

Sepsis is a significant public health concern, particularly affecting individuals above 70
years in developed countries. This is a crucial fact due to the increasing aging population …

Importance Rapid source control is recommended to improve patient outcomes in sepsis.
Yet there are few data to guide how rapidly source control is required. Objective To …

Purpose Invasive mechanical ventilation is a common form of life support provided to
critically ill patients. Frailty is an emerging prognostic factor for poor outcome in the Intensive …

Background/objective Emergency department (ED) visits have declined while excess
mortality, not attributable to COVID‐19, has grown. It is not known whether older adults are …

Objective To synthesize the current evidence examining the association between frailty and
a series of post-arrest outcomes following the provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation …

Background: The associations of frailty with the risk of mortality and resource utilization in
the elderly patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) remain unclear. To address these …

Abstract Background A threshold Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) of 5 (indicating mild frailty) has
been proposed to guide ICU admission for UK patients with coronavirus disease 2019 …

Background Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in critical illness. However, it is unclear
whether frailty screening on admission to the ICU can be conducted routinely at the …