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Frailty In Older Adults Attending An Outpatient Geriatric Clinic As Measured By The Visual Scale Of Frailty [PDF]

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2019
BACKGROUND: Existing instruments for the diagnosis of frailty are limited by their focus on mobility evaluation, failure to incorporate comorbidities, and dichotomous classification of patients as frail or non-frail, which hinders adequate identification
Marco Túlio Gualberto Cintra, Felipe Ferreira Guimarães, Cislene Teixeira de Souza, Fernanda Silva Trindade Luz, Érica Dias Murta, Maria Aparecida Camargos Bicalho, Edgar Nunes de Moraes   +6 more
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Sarcopenia and the syndrome of frailty

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2016
Sarcopenia is the process of loss of body mass, specifically the musculoskeletal tissue, with age, which ultimately leads to a syndrome of clinical entity poorly defined as frailty. It is probably as old as humanity itself.
Ajay Kumar Gupta, Siddhartha Mishra
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Detecting frail, older adults and identifying their strengths: results of a mixed-methods study [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The debate on frailty in later life focuses primarily on deficits and their associations with adverse (health) outcomes. In addition to deficits, it may also be important to consider the abilities and resources of older adults.
Sarah Dury, Eva Dierckx, Anne van der Vorst, Michaël Van der Elst, Bram Fret, Daan Duppen, Lieve Hoeyberghs, Ellen De Roeck, Deborah Lambotte, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Jos Schols, Gertrudis Kempen, G.A. Rixt Zijlstra, Jan De Lepeleire, Birgitte Schoenmakers, Dominique Verté, Nico De Witte, Tinie Kardol, Peter Paul De Deyn, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Liesbeth De Donder   +20 more
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Frailty recommendations and guidelines. An evaluation of implementability and critical appraisal of clinical applicability by the ISPRM Frailty Focus Group

The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Objective:. Aging is associated with an increased burden of multimorbidity and disease-related functional loss and disability, widely impacting patients and health care systems.
Eleftheria Antoniadou, MD, PhD, Emanuele Maria Giusti, PhD, Paolo Capodaglio, MD, Dersheng HAN, MD, Francesca Gimigliano, MD, Juan Manuel Guzman, MD, Mooyeon OhPARK, MD, Walter Frontera, MD   +7 more
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Frailty in Cardiac Surgery—Assessment Tools, Impact on Outcomes, and Optimisation Strategies: A Narrative Review

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
Background: Advancements in surgical care have made it possible to offer cardiac surgery to an older and frailer patient cohort. Frailty has been recognised as a prognostic indicator that impacts post-operative recovery and patient outcomes.
Ashwini Chandiramani, Jason M. Ali
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Physical frailty prediction model for the oldest old

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2018
Objective: to present a physical frailty prediction model for oldest old users of primary health care, according to clinical variables. Method: cross-sectional study with proportional stratified sample of 243 oldest old subjects.
Jacy Aurelia Vieira de Sousa, Maria Helena Lenardt, Clóris Regina Blanski Grden, Luciana Kusomota, Mara Solange Gomes Dellaroza, Susanne Elero Betiolli   +5 more
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Validation of the clinical frailty score (CFS) in French language

BMC Geriatrics, 2019
Background Very old critical ill patients are a rapid expanding group. To better understand the magnitude of the challenges involved in intensive care practice for an ageing population and discuss a rational allocation of resources, healthcare ...
Paul Abraham, Delphine S. Courvoisier, Cedric Annweiler, Cliff Lenoir, Thomas Millien, Francoise Dalmaz, Hans Flaatten, Rui Moreno, Steffen Christensen, Dylan W. de Lange, Bertrand Guidet, Karim Bendjelid, Bernhard Walder, Bernardo Bollen Pinto   +13 more
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Frailty In Patients Undergoing Vascular Surgery: A Narrative Review Of Current Evidence

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2019
Nikoletta Rahel Czobor,1,2 Jean-Jacques Lehot,3,4 Eniko Holndonner-Kirst,1 Phillip J Tully,5 Janos Gal,6 Andrea Szekely6,7 1Medical Centre of Hungarian Defense Forces, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Budapest, Hungary; 2Semmelweis ...
Czobor NR, Lehot JJ, Holndonner-Kirst E, Tully PJ, Gal J, Szekely A   +5 more
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Reliability and validity of a frailty assessment tool in specialized burn care, a retrospective multicentre cohort study [PDF]

, 2023
Background: Frailty is a predictor of adverse outcomes in elderly patients. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is an often-used frailty assessment instrument.
Scholten-Jaegers, S. M.H.J., Middelkoop, E., van Zuijlen, P. P.M., Roodbergen, D., van der Vlies, Cornelis H., Lucas, Y., Gardien, K., Verhofstad, M. H.J., Pijpe, Anouk, Scholten, S. M.H.J., Eshuis, H., Boekelaar, A., Cords, Charlotte I., Nieuwenhuis, Marianne K., van Es, A., Roukema, G., Boudestein, K., Nieuwenhuis, M. K., Heijblom, M. C., Bosma, E., van Baar, M. E., Novin, A., Polinder, S., Verhofstad, M. H.J.; id_orcid, Pijpe, A., Damen, J., Hiddingh, J., Nieuwenhuis, Marianne K.; id_orcid, van der Vlies, C. H., Mattace-Raso, F. U.S., Stoop, M. M.   +30 more
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Methods of Assessing Frailty in the Critically Ill: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature. [PDF]

, 2022
INTRODUCTION As new treatments have become established, more frail pre-ICU patients are being admitted to intensive care units (ICUs); this is creating new challenges to provide adequate care and to ensure that resources are allocated in an ethical ...
Bertschi, Daniela, Schefold, Joerg Christian, Waskowski, Jan, Schilling, Manuel, Pfortmueller, Carmen Andrea, Donatsch, Claudia   +5 more
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