"Validation of Frail Scale and comparison with hospital frailty risk sc" by Dinberu S. Shebeshi, Xenia Dolja-Gore et al.
Introduction: With no standard frailty tool for clinical care, research and policymaking, identifying frail older people is a challenge. Aims: This study aimed to compare two validated scales, which are the Frail Scale and Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) for their ability in identifying frailty in older Australian women and predicting hospital use. Methods: This study included older Australian women aged 75–95 years, who had unplanned overnight hospital admission as an index admission between 2001 and 2016. Data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) were li...
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