Assessment of frailty by paramedics using the clinical frailty scale - an inter-rater reliability and accuracy study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty assessment by paramedics in the prehospital setting is understudied. The goals of this study were to assess the inter-rater reliability and accuracy of frailty assessment by paramedics using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS).

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study with paramedics exposed to 30 clinical vignettes created from real-life situations. There was no teaching intervention prior to the study and paramedics were only provided with the French version of the CFS (definitions and pictograms). The primary outcome was the inter-rater reliability of the assessment. The secondary outcome was the accuracy, compared with the expert-based assessment. Reliability was determined by calculating an intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Accuracy was assessed

SUBMITTER: Fehlmann CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576312 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature