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.

Findings could help clinicians reinforce the value of preventing infections with vaccinati ...

The Five-item Frailty Index (5i-FI) is a tool used by physicians to predict surgical risk and postoperative complications after a procedure. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding ...

A new frailty index shows promise in determining how acute illness affects functional ability in older patients admitted to hospital, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association ...

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 ...

A new study explores the relationship between frailty, the proportion of health deficits present in an individual, as measured by the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Frailty Index ...

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 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 ...

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 ...