Using the Hospital Frailty Risk Score to assess mortality risk in older medical patients admitted to the intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prognostic information at the time of hospital discharge can help guide goals-of-care discussions for future care. We sought to assess the association between the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS), which may highlight patients' risk of adverse outcomes at the time of hospital discharge, and in-hospital death among patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) within 12 months of a previous hospital discharge.

Methods

We conducted a multicentre retrospective cohort study that included patients aged 75 years or older admitted at least twice over a 12-month period to the general medicine service at 7 academic centres and large community-based teaching hospitals in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, from Apr. 1, 2010, to Dec. 31, 2019. The HFRS (categoriz

SUBMITTER: Detsky ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10325579 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature