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.

Among patients with hypertension, a frailty index more effectively identified the systolic blood pressure (BP) ranges associated with a lower risk for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) than ...

Published in BMC Medicine, the study analyzed data from over 150,000 participants and found the strongest associations in ...

A comprehensive frailty index would be a valuable tool for the dialysis population, which commonly has mobility and resource constraints that limit physical performance assessments. A newly developed ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to study results, the mortality frailty index correlated with 30-day morbidity and mortality in ...

In this review, we first provide a brief overview of frailty, including biologic mechanisms, measurement, and clinical management. This overview is followed by a discussion of approaches to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A deficit-accumulation frailty index that accounts for aging-associated diseases and disabilities appeared ...

“We recommend that investigators carefully consider what aspects of frailty to include in their analyses instead of fully adopting the published scoring systems.” “We recommend that investigators ...

While earlier research implicates frailty as a potential driver of infections, this study reverses that relationship's direction. Having a history of infection was significantly associated with having ...

The bumpy trajectory of human aging may have a tipping point as we enter our twilight years, a new study has found. Past the age of around 75, our bodies can no longer easily recover from injury or ...