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Spring 2022
Objective: We advance the literature on frailty measurement and conceptualization by applying data-driven analytic technologies to multiple aging morbidity indicators in order to detect clusters of deficits or individual features that elevate risk for (a) frailty emergence and progression and (b)...
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2019-06-01
Guo, Selynne, Hansen, Heather, Khera, Sheny, Rolfson, Darryl
Introduction: As one of the geriatric giants, frailty is a state of decreased physiological reserve and increased vulnerability that results from the collective decline in multiple systems. It manifests as a heterogeneous, multidimensional syndrome. However, several studies have shown that older...
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Spring 2020
Objective A substantial proportion of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICU) are frail; however, its epidemiology at a population-level has not been explored. Following implementation of a validated frailty measure into a provincial ICU clinical information system, we sought to...