Validation of the hospital frailty risk score in a tertiary care hospital in Switzerland: results of a prospective, observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Recently, the Hospital Frailty Risk Score based on a derivation and validation study in the UK has been proposed as a low-cost, systematic screening tool to identify older, frail patients who are at a greater risk of adverse outcomes and for whom a frailty-attuned approach might be useful. We aimed to validate this Score in an independent cohort in Switzerland.

Design

Secondary analysis of a prospective, observational study (TRIAGE study).

Setting

One 600-bed tertiary care hospital in Aarau, Switzerland.

Participants

Consecutive medical inpatients aged ≥75 years that presented to the emergency department or were electively admitted between October 2015 and April 2018.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary endpoint was all-cause 30

SUBMITTER: Eckart A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6340447 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature