Frailty in general medicine patients receiving geriatric medicine liaison services is predictive of adverse outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Frailty is in an increasing focus for acute care systems due to its association with adverse health outcomes. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a judgement-based frailty assessment tool, which classifies the frailty status of older adults, but more research involving general medicine inpatients is necessary. The objectives of this study were to describe the predictive ability of CFS, administered by geriatric medicine trained nurses, for adverse outcomes including the following: acute unit and total length of stay (LOS), new nursing home (NH) admission, 12-month mortality and readmission within 30-day.

Methods

Design Retrospective study. Participants Patients admitted under general medicine unit and seen by the geriatric medicine liaison team in one general ho

SUBMITTER: Thompson MQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11752163 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature