SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

Background Lung cancer screening is effective for people at higher risk of the disease, but there is no international consensus on eligibility criteria. Some programmes use risk factors; others use ...

Seasonal influenza continues to remain burdensome for adults worldwide, especially for those who are older and frail. A new post-hoc analysis included nearly 12,500 participants (average age 71.7 ...

In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), frailty was associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The use of an oral anticoagulant (OAC) prescription was associated with substantial reductions in the ...

A retrospective cohort study found that frailty was prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and that the adverse effects could include end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and mortality. An ...

The proportion of patients with potentially inappropriate medications was 38% overall and 56.1% in patients with moderate to severe frailty. Use of potentially inappropriate medications among cancer ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

We calculated an FI for 3,807 veterans age 65 years or older. Among the cohort, 28.7% were classified as nonfrail, 41.3% prefrail, 21.6% mildly frail, 6.6% moderately frail, and 1.7% severely frail.

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. In the next 10 years, the number of ...