Swiss Frailty Network and Repository: protocol of a Swiss Personalized Health Network's driver project observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Early identification of frailty by clinical instruments or accumulation of deficit indexes can contribute to improve healthcare for older adults, including the prevention of negative outcomes in acute care. However, conflicting evidence exists on how to best capture frailty in this setting. Simultaneously, the increasing utilisation of electronic health records (EHRs) opens up new possibilities for research and patient care, including frailty.

Methods and analysis

The Swiss Frailty Network and Repository (SFNR) primarily aims to develop an electronic Frailty Index (eFI) from routinely available EHR data in order to investigate its predictive value against length of stay and in-hospital mortality as two important clinical outcomes in a study sample of 1000-1500 h

SUBMITTER: Gagesch M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8280893 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature