Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . DESTIN, Fla. — Rheumatologists are uniquely positioned to define and manage sarcopenia and frailty, according to ...

An electronic frailty index, derived from electronic health record (EHR) data including diagnostic codes, identified patients who had a higher risk for mortality, acute care visits, and readmissions.

The average human lifespan has increased at a breath-taking rate in the last century. The major problem of gerontology and ...

An international collaboration of researchers have successfully adapted a Japanese oral health screening tool for use among ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . According to study results, the mortality frailty index correlated with 30-day morbidity and mortality in ...

The Five-item Frailty Index (5i-FI) is a tool used by physicians to predict surgical risk and postoperative complications after a procedure. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding ...

The laboratory-based Frailty Index showed strong predictive ability for mortality and relapse in patients with carbapenemase-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections. “Unlike traditional ...

Researchers at a Scottish university have discovered a measure used to assess the health of older people can improve quality of life for younger patients. Frailty is a condition usually recognised in ...

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 ...

Frailty assessed with a comorbidity-based risk-stratification tool correlates with long-term risks of mortality and geriatric symptoms following TAVI, according to new data. Compared with patients ...