Clinical Frailty Scale at presentation to the emergency department: interrater reliability and use of algorithm-assisted assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) allows health care providers to quickly stratify older patients, to support clinical decision-making. However, few studies have evaluated the CFS interrater reliability (IRR) in Emergency Departments (EDs), and the freely available smartphone application for CFS assessment was never tested for reliability. This study aimed to evaluate the interrater reliability of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) ratings between experienced and unexperienced staff (ED clinicians and a study team (ST) of medical students supported by a smartphone application to assess the CFS), and to determine the feasibility of CFS assignment in patients aged 65 or older at triage.

Methods

Cross-sectional study using consecutive sampling of ED patients aged 65 or old

SUBMITTER: Albrecht R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10876739 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature