Patients with heart failure who had worse clinical frailty scores at discharge were also at higher risk of death within the next 2 years. Frailty is closely linked to adverse outcomes in older adults, ...

Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS): A Rapid and Robust Indicator of Patient Vulnerability after Heart Failure (IMAGE) Juntendo University Research Promotion Center Caption Patients with heart failure who ...

Frailty increased during the first year after the initiation of dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Pre-dialysis frailty was associated with an increased risk for hospitalisation, and ...

Identifying patients with combined polypharmacy and frailty can help recognize ICU patients with high risk of hospital readmission, the authors said. Polypharmacy and frailty are very common among ...