SCREENING TOOLS FOR FRAILTY
Frailty in cardiovascular disease: Screening tools
... adults. Frailty is a complex clinical syndrome with multiple causes and contributing factors in which there is increased vulnerability when exposed to a minor stressor and increased risk for adverse outcomes, such ...
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Frailty Screening Tools: Frail Detection to Primary Assessment
... 2019 Frailty is a vulnerable situation among older adults which can lead to unfavorable health outcomes such as falls, mortality, functional decline and ...of screening tools to detect frailty ...
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Predictive performance of four frailty screening tools in community-dwelling elderly
... between frailty, disability and institutionalization, some frailty screening tools may not be appropriate for assessing mortality and institutionalization in community-dwelling older ...
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Performance of Edmonton Frail Scale on frailty assessment: its association with multi-dimensional geriatric conditions assessed with specific screening tools
... on frailty assessment in association with multi-dimensional conditions assessed with specific screening tools and to explore the prevalence of frailty by ...
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Prognostic value of simple frailty and malnutrition screening tools in patients with acute heart failure due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction
... and frailty might be helpful in identifying patients at high risk of re-admission who might benefit from tailored treatments or interventions to help reduce ...simple screening tools for malnutrition ...
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Paramedic assessment of frailty: An exploratory study of perceptions of frailty assessment tools
... Introduction Frailty is recognised as a significant variable in the health of older ...of frailty may assist in timely entry to an appropriate clinical care ...of frailty by paramedic professionals ...
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Screening for markers of frailty and perceived risk of adverse outcomes using the Risk Instrument for Screening in the Community (RISC)
... the frailty assessment is another limi- ...of frailty and the CFS are subjective measures, and the inclusion of an objective observer rated assessment instrument would have reduced potential ...the ...
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Multicomponent frailty assessment tools for older people with psychiatric disorders: a systematic review
... on frailty assessment: its association with multi-dimensional geriatric conditions assessed with specific screening ...electronic frailty index using routine primary care electronic health record ...
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Screening for frailty in primary care
... for frailty in primary care | Research in a primary care ...composite tools and that there was suf- ficient evidence to support the use of gait speed as a single-item assessment tool for screening ...
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Frailty in patients with acute coronary syndrome: comparison between tools for comprehensive geriatric assessment and the Tilburg Frailty Indicator
... of frailty include: nutritional condition, mobility, activity, strength and endurance, cogni- tive functions, and ...simple screening tool that could be used for diagnosing the ...various tools ...
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<p>Frailty Screening in Chronic Kidney Disease: Current Perspectives</p>
... a frailty screening test for a variety of reasons – the absence of physical testing makes it easy to implement, and unlike most other assessment tools, it offers a more robust examination of a ...
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The use of technology in the context of frailty screening and management interventions: a study of stakeholders’ perspectives
... line tools or resources dedicated to frailty management, as first an older adult would need to admit that they were indeed either frail, or vulnerable to ...
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Frailty
... composite tools and that there was now suffi- cient evidence to support use of gait speed as a single- item screening tool for frailty in community-dwelling older ...
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Validation of an automatically generated screening score for frailty: the care assessment need (CAN) score
... A major strength of this work is the widespread use of the validated CGA as a clinical tool based on millions of patient visits. Another strength of our study is the rela- tively large sample size and the completeness of ...
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The feasibility of assessing frailty and sarcopenia in hospitalised older people: a comparison of commonly used tools
... of frailty and sarcopenia of this in-patient group may have been ...Fried Frailty Phenotype, FRAIL Scale and EWGSOP tools but additional comparison of other tools such as the Clinical ...
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Paramedic assessment of frailty: an exploratory study of perceptions of frailty assessment tools
... Considering the nature of paramedic work, of particular interest was the time taken to administer each tool. The succinctness of the EFS suggests that an administration time of five minutes may be achievable with this ...
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Screening for frailty: older populations and older individuals
... for frailty in older populations is the possibility of designing and implementing preventive, population-based interventions targeting identified risk ...of frailty and its consequences, with an emphasis on ...
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Frailty: we need valid and reliable tools in critical care
... that frailty is a condition characterised by loss of biological reserves, failure of homeostatic mechanisms and vulnerability to a range of adverse outcomes such as falls, disability, hospitalisation, cognitive ...
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Perspectives of Frailty and Frailty Screening: Protocol for a Collaborative Knowledge Translation Approach and Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Understandings and Experiences
... of frailty and healthy ageing with the consumer ...about frailty and its impact will enable insights into representations and health- illness narratives not possible through verbal means alone [24], thereby ...
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Screening for frailty in primary care: a systematic review of the psychometric properties of the frailty index in community-dwelling older people
... Conclusions In this systematic review, the FI demonstrates good cri- terion and construct validity, but its discriminatory abil- ity is poor to moderate. In general, the FI appears to be an easily interpretable ...
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