A new tool effectively measures frailty to identify older adults who have a higher risk of emergency health needs, rehospitalization or death, according to a recent report. The tool could be useful to ...

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency ...

Researchers at Boston-based Mass General Brigham developed an Epic tool that identifies older patients at risk for emergency care, readmission or death based on frailty levels. The electronic frailty ...

2005). Although introduced as a means of summarizing a multidimensional assessment in an epidemiological setting, the CFS quickly evolved for clinical use, and has been widely taken up as a ...

Other advantages of this approach are: it can be applied to almost any health dataset it is a comprehensive assessment of health it provides a continuous score from fitness to frailty it is more ...

The tool measured patient frailty, an aging-related syndrome, by integrating the health records of more than 500,000 individuals collected across multiple hospitals at Mass General Brigham.

Investigators at Mass General Brigham have developed a tool that can identify older adults at increased risk of emergency healthcare needs, rehospitalization or death. The tool measured patient ...