Improved overall survival of metastatic cancers in the United States across all age groups in the immunotherapy era: Implications for considering elderly patients (age ≥ 75) for immune checkpoint ...

An electronic frailty index, derived from electronic health record (EHR) data including diagnostic codes, identified patients who had a higher risk for mortality, acute care visits, and readmissions.

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency healthcare needs, rehospitalization or death. The tool measured patient ...

A wrist-worn device may be an option for measuring physical frailty in ambulatory and nonambulatory patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) scheduled to undergo peripheral ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

Frailty accelerated four to nine years before dementia started, and it was positively linked with the risk for dementia, according to four studies conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom ...

Frailty was calculated via a frailty index (FI) using 49 variables in the NHANES dataset related to signs, symptoms, disabilities, diseases and laboratory measurements. Results found that frailty was ...