Development and testing of an electronic frailty index using Canadian electronic medical record data in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability from physical, social, and cognitive factors and can result in several negative health outcomes at an individual and systemic level. Existing electronic medical record (EMR) data can be optimized to identify patients' frailty level in primary care to facilitate early intervention and management of frailty in an efficient manner. The purpose of this work was to develop and validate a Canadian electronic frailty index (eFI) using primary care EMR data.

Methods

We built a Canadian eFI based on the existing UK 36-factor eFI and tested it using EMR data from British Columbia (BC) primary care practices. We used a retrospective cross-sectional design to examine the concurrent criterion validity of the eFI by testing the hypo

SUBMITTER: Thandi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12613384 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature