COVID-19 is not over and age is not enough: Using frailty for prognostication in hospitalized patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty screening using the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) has been proposed to guide resource allocation in acute care settings during the pandemic. However, the association between frailty and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prognosis remains unclear.

Objectives

To investigate the association between frailty and mortality over 6 months in middle-aged and older patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and the association between acute morbidity severity and mortality across frailty strata.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Setting

Large academic medical center in Brazil.

Participants

A total of 1830 patients aged ≥50 years hospitalized with COVID-19 (March-July 2020).

Measurements

We screened baseline frailty using the CFS (1-9) and clas

SUBMITTER: Aliberti MJR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8251205 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature