Using Existing Clinical Data to Measure Older Adult Inpatients' Frailty at Admission and Discharge: Hospital Patient Register Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty is a widespread geriatric syndrome among older adults, including hospitalized older inpatients. Some countries use electronic frailty measurement tools to identify frailty at the primary care level, but this method has rarely been investigated during hospitalization in acute care hospitals. An electronic frailty measurement instrument based on population-based hospital electronic health records could effectively detect frailty, frailty-related problems, and complications as well be a clinical alert. Identifying frailty among older adults using existing patient health data would greatly aid the management and support of frailty identification and could provide a valuable public health instrument without additional costs.

Objective

We aim to explore a data-d

SUBMITTER: Wernli B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11555450 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature