A classification tree to assist with routine scoring of the Clinical Frailty Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was originally developed to summarise a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and yield a care plan. Especially since COVID-19, the CFS is being used widely by health care professionals without training in frailty care as a resource allocation tool and for care rationing. CFS scoring by inexperienced raters might not always reflect expert judgement. For these raters, we developed a new classification tree to assist with routine CFS scoring. Here, we test that tree against clinical scoring.

Objective/methods

we examined agreement between the CFS classification tree and CFS scoring by novice raters (clerks/residents), and the CFS classification tree and CFS scoring by experienced raters (geriatricians) in 115 older adults (mean age 78.0

SUBMITTER: Theou O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7929455 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature