Validated frailty measures using electronic primary care records: a review of diagnostic test accuracy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Identification of people who have or are at risk of frailty enables targeted interventions, and the use of tools that screen for frailty using electronic records (which we term as validated electronic frailty measures (VEFMs)) within primary care is incentivised by NHS England. We carried out a systematic review to establish the sensitivity and specificity of available primary care VEFMs when compared to a reference standard in-person assessment.

Methods

Medline, Pubmed, CENTRAL, CINHAL and Embase searches identified studies comparing a primary care VEFM with in-person assessment. Studies were quality assessed using Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies revised tool. Sensitivity and specificity values were extracted or were calculated and pooled usin

SUBMITTER: Brack C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10873280 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature