Validation of the Risk Analysis Index for Evaluating Frailty in Ambulatory Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty is a marker of dependency, disability, hospitalization, and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. However, existing tools for measuring frailty are too cumbersome for rapid point-of-care assessment. The Risk Analysis Index (RAI) of frailty is validated in surgical populations, but its performance outside surgical populations is unknown.

Objective

Validate the RAI in ambulatory patients.

Design, setting, and participants

Observational cohort study of outpatient surgical clinics within the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Healthcare System between July 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016. Frailty was assessed using the RAI. Current Procedural Terminology codes following RAI assessment identified patients with and without minor office-based p

SUBMITTER: Shah R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725401 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature