Frailty and vulnerability screening tools used in emergency departments (EDs) had high sensitivity but low specificity for predicting adverse outcomes among older adults, limiting their standalone ...
Can pre-frailty and frailty predict the risk for cardiovascular events like myocardial infarction or stroke? According to new study findings, frailty in older adults is a dynamic state that often ...
An international collaboration of researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, Michigan State University, the University of Iowa, New York University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and multiple ...
A new study compared the accuracy of an abbreviated version of the CGA (aCGA) versus the full CGA among 91 patients ≥65 years old with newly diagnosed DLBCL. The aCGA effectively detected frailty and ...
Frailty screening helps identify these patients, enabling surgical teams to tailor treatment plans that align with patient ...
Frailty predicted mortality, readmission and other noncardiac postoperative outcomes. (HealthDay News) — Frailty is a significant predictor of noncardiac postoperative outcomes among Medicare ...
A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 7, of Aging (Aging-US) on July 3, 2025, titled "Frailty associates with respiratory exacerbations and mortality in the COPDGene cohort." In this ...