Frailer older patients are at higher risk of readmission to hospital or death within 30 days after discharge from a general internal medicine ward, but health care professionals can assess who is at ...

Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next 2 years. Frailty is closely linked to adverse outcomes in older adults, ...

Identifying patients with combined polypharmacy and frailty can help recognize ICU patients with high risk of hospital readmission, the authors said. Polypharmacy and frailty are very common among ...

A new study classifies frailty in older people, coming up with two subtypes. The classification may further help clinicians manage frailty and deliver more customized care. The study evaluated the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While all the assessed instruments demonstrated a high prevalence of frailty in patients receiving hemodialysis, ...

Approximately 12% of patients hospitalized with sepsis had developed new frailty upon hospital discharge. Inpatients with sepsis need targeted strategies to reduce frailty, which is a known risk ...

Allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) remains a potentially curative option for patients with high-risk haematological malignancies, albeit at the cost of substantial morbidity and ...

Results of a recent trial show that hospital-to-home self-managed exercise and nutrition plans can help older adults prone to frailty — or those who are already frail — in the long run. “Pre-frailty ...