Frailty is dynamic. While it can get worse over time, in some cases frailty can also be reversed or even prevented through health and lifestyle changes. For example, we know physical inactivity ...

The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was introduced in the second clinical examination of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) as a way to summarize the overall level of fitness or frailty of an ...

The frailty index (FI), developed by our group, is one of the leading paradigms for understanding frailty at population, personal, organ, and tissue levels (with cellular deficit evaluation in ...

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 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.