Development and validation of a hospital frailty risk measure using Canadian clinical administrative data

JE Amuah, K Molodianovitsh, S Carbone… - CMAJ, 2023 - Can Med Assoc
Background: Accessible measures specific to the Canadian context are needed to support
health system planning for older adults living with frailty. We sought to develop and validate …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of frailty among hospitalized older adults in New Brunswick, Canada: an administrative data population-based study

MA Gallibois, K Rogers, C Folkins, P Jarrett… - Canadian Geriatrics …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Characterizing the prevalence and distribution of frailty within a population can
help guide decision-making and policy development by identifying health service resource …

The hospital frailty risk score—outcomes in specialised services

T Imam, R Konstant-Hambling, R Fluck, N Hall… - Age and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Frailty is increasingly used to risk stratify older people, but across specialised
services there is no standardised approach. The aim of this study was to assess if the …

Validation of the hospital frailty risk score in a tertiary care hospital in Switzerland: results of a prospective, observational study

A Eckart, SI Hauser, S Haubitz, T Struja, A Kutz… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Recently, the Hospital Frailty Risk Score based on a derivation and validation
study in the UK has been proposed as a low-cost, systematic screening tool to identify older …

[HTML][HTML] Development and validation of a Hospital Frailty Risk Score focusing on older people in acute care settings using electronic hospital records: an observational …

T Gilbert, J Neuburger, J Kraindler, E Keeble, P Smith… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Older people are increasing users of health care globally. We aimed to
establish whether older people with characteristics of frailty and who are at risk of adverse …

External validation of the hospital frailty risk score among hospitalised home care clients in Canada: a retrospective cohort study

LA Turcotte, G Heckman, K Rockwood… - Age and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) is scored using ICD-10
diagnostic codes in administrative hospital records. Home care clients in Canada are …

Comparison of a multidomain frailty index from routine health data with the hospital frailty risk score in older patients in an Australian hospital

K Fujita, SY Lo, RE Hubbard, D Gnjidic… - … Journal on Ageing, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Frailty is an important determinant of health‐care needs and outcomes for
people in hospital. Objectives To compare characteristics and predictive ability of a …

Dr Foster global frailty score: an international retrospective observational study developing and validating a risk prediction model for hospitalised older persons from …

JTY Soong, J Kaubryte, D Liew, CJ Peden, A Bottle… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives This study aimed to examine the prevalence of frailty coding within the Dr Foster
Global Comparators (GC) international database. We then aimed to develop and validate a …

The Hospital Frailty Risk Score identifies fewer cases of frailty in a community-based cohort of older men than the FRAIL Scale and Frailty Index

D Lopez, K Murray, DB Preen, FM Sanfilippo… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives The recently developed Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) allows
ascertainment of frailty from administrative data. We aimed to compare the HFRS against the …

The Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) applied to primary data: protocol for a systematic review

A Alshibani, B Warner, RK Owen, A Mukherjee… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Frailty is characterised by vulnerability to adverse health outcomes and
increases with age. Many frailty risk scores have been developed. One important example is …