The Association between Frailty and All-Cause Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Individuals: An Umbrella Review.

ABSTRACT: Frailty is associated with multiple adverse health outcomes, including mortality. Several methods have been used to characterize frailty, each based on different frailty scales. These include scales based on phenotype, multidomain, and deficit accumulations. Several systematic reviews have examined the association between frailty and mortality; however, it is unclear whether these different frailty scales similarly predict mortality. This umbrella review aims to examine the association between frailty assessed by different frailty scales and all-cause mortality among community-dwelling older adults. A protocol was registered at PROSPERO, and it was conducted following the PRISMA statement. MEDLINE, Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) EBP d

SUBMITTER: Ekram ARMS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10376924 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature