Frailty is associated with reduced cardiac rehabilitation use in Medicare patients, despite these individuals deriving the greatest mortality benefit.

Frailty is associated with increased mortality 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in older patients with severe aortic stenosis, though it does not affect the risk of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Combining indices of frailty and trabecular bone score did not yield improved predictive accuracy for major ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A frailty score based on a geriatric assessment of age, comorbidities, and cognitive and physical status ...

Adding frailty assessment to conventional risk scores improves the ability to predict 1-year mortality after TAVR, with the odds of death increasing alongside worsening degrees of frailty, according ...

Frailty is common in elderly people with cardiovascular disease and goes along with elevated mortality. However, no consensus exists on the definition of frailty. Many scores have been developed to ...

The report was published Monday in BMC Geriatrics. Researchers wanted to see if the Clinical Frailty Score could predict death in critically ill older adults (over the age of 70) who were admitted to ...

A multidimensional frailty score may help predict postoperative outcomes in older adults. A multidimensional frailty score composed of items including dependence in activities of daily living, ...

Frailty increased during the first year after the initiation of dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Pre-dialysis frailty was associated with an increased risk for hospitalisation, and ...

A study published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that scoring patients for frailty can accurately predict adverse surgical outcomes. Researchers scored ...

As our population ages and our medical care improves, we have increasing numbers of frail patients. The frail require gentler, longer, and frequently more expensive care. A new study looks at these ...