The frailty index (FI), developed by our group, is one of the leading paradigms for understanding frailty at population, personal, organ, and tissue levels (with cellular deficit evaluation in ...

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 ...

An updated version of a widely used frailty risk score will help GPs more accurately identify patients at risk, researchers have concluded. The electronic frailty index version 2 (eFI2) is better able ...

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.