The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was introduced in the second clinical examination of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) as a way to summarize the overall level of fitness or frailty of an ...

Frailty — a clinical syndrome characterized by decreased physiological reserve and increased vulnerability to stressors — has traditionally been associated with geriatric medicine but has profound ...

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, ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that the efficacy of clinical interventions often varied by frailty levels, demonstrating that frailty ...

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 ...

Critically ill individuals who had higher levels of clinical frailty when they were admitted to an emergency department for their illness had nearly double the risk of death in the short-, mid-, and ...

A recent clinical review highlights that targeted interventions for physical frailty could reduce hospitalizations by 33% and ...

In the next 10 years, the number of Canadians living with frailty will grow to more than two million. Frailty matters because it not only affects seniors’ ability to function, but also puts their ...

The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) offers a practical alternative: a 9-point, bedside, visually assessed tool that can be completed in minutes. However, key questions remain-how closely this ...

Altered neutrophil G-protein receptor signalling linked to impaired chemotaxis and increased ROS and NET production in older people with frailty Independent contributions of functional class, ...