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 ...
A new study classifies frailty in older people, coming up with two subtypes. The classification may further help clinicians manage frailty and deliver more customized care. The study evaluated the ...
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 ...
A simple bedside frailty rating by nurses can help predict mortality among patients undergoing dialysis, supporting its ...
A narrative review proposes cardiovascular frailty as a distinct phenotype that brings together blood pressure regulation, ...
Creating and establishing a sustainable culture of clinical and translational research at an academic cancer center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...
The researchers proposed using the FRAIL Scale modified to include an extra item on time since completion of cancer treatment and a cut-off of 2 or higher to assess frailty in older adult cancer ...
Researchers at a Scottish university have discovered a measure used to assess the health of older people can improve quality of life for younger patients. Frailty is a condition usually recognised in ...
Researchers conducted focus group discussion and interviews with PLWH aged 60 and older attending HIV health check to assess perceptions of frailty and screening. The five-item FRAIL scale (which ...