Association between clinical frailty, illness severity and post-discharge survival: a prospective cohort study of older medical inpatients in Norway.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Study associations between frailty, illness severity and post-discharge survival in older adults admitted to medical wards with acute clinical conditions.

Methods

Prospective cohort study of 195 individuals (mean age 86; 63% females) admitted to two medical wards with acute illness, followed up for all-cause mortality for 20 months after discharge. Ward physicians screened for frailty and quantified its degree from one to eight using Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), while clinical illness severity was estimated by New Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) and laboratory illness severity was calculated by a frailty index (FI-lab) using routine blood tests.

Results

CFS, NEWS2 and FI-lab scores were independently associated with post-discharge survival in an adjusted Cox pr

SUBMITTER: Engvig A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8379589 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature