A sco** review of the Clinical Frailty Scale

S Church, E Rogers, K Rockwood, O Theou - BMC geriatrics, 2020 - Springer
Background Frailty is increasingly recognized as an important construct which has health
implications for older adults. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a judgement-based frailty …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in frailty identification, management, risk factors and prevention: a narrative review of leading journals in geriatrics and gerontology

E Dent, P Hanlon, M Sim, J Jylhävä, Z Liu… - Ageing Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Frailty is an age-related clinical condition characterised by an increased susceptibility to
stressors and an elevated risk of adverse outcomes such as mortality. In the light of global …

Clinical frailty scale and mortality in COVID-19: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis

R Pranata, J Henrina, MA Lim, S Lawrensia… - Archives of gerontology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) endorsed
clinical frailty scale (CFS) to help with decision-making. However, this recommendation …

A classification tree to assist with routine scoring of the Clinical Frailty Scale

O Theou, MU Pérez-Zepeda, AM van der Valk… - Age and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was originally developed to summarise
a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and yield a care plan. Especially since COVID-19 …

COVID‐19 is not over and age is not enough: using frailty for prognostication in hospitalized patients

MJR Aliberti, C Szlejf, VI Avelino‐Silva… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Frailty screening using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) has been proposed to
guide resource allocation in acute care settings during the pandemic. However, the …

The impact of frailty on survival in elderly intensive care patients with COVID-19: the COVIP study

C Jung, H Flaatten, J Fjølner, RR Bruno, B Wernly… - Critical care, 2021 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led highly developed healthcare systems to the
brink of collapse due to the large numbers of patients being admitted into hospitals. One of …

Frailty triage: is rationing intensive medical treatment on the grounds of frailty ethical?

DJC Wilkinson - The American Journal of Bioethics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In early 2020, a number of countries developed and published intensive care triage
guidelines for the pandemic. Several of those guidelines, especially in the UK, encouraged …

A national study of 23 major trauma centres to investigate the effect of frailty on clinical outcomes in older people admitted with serious injury in England (FiTR 1): a …

B Carter, R Short, O Bouamra, F Parry… - The Lancet Healthy …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Older people are the largest group admitted to hospital with serious injuries.
Many older people are living with frailty, a risk factor for poor recovery. We aimed to examine …

Hospital admissions from care homes in England during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis using linked administrative data

F Grimm, K Hodgson, R Brine… - International Journal of …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Care home residents have complex healthcare needs but may have faced
barriers to accessing hospital treatment during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Managing COVID-19 in four small countries: Initial response to the pandemic in San Marino, Montenegro, Malta and Cyprus

N Calleja, A Gualtieri, N Terzic, V Scoutellas… - Health Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to compare the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on four small
countries in the southern half of Europe with similar public health systems: San Marino …