Sentence examples for frailty instruments from inspiring English sources

Comparison of frailty instruments in low-middle income countries, where the prevalence of frailty may be higher, is scarce.

We aimed to compare the performance of 3 frailty instruments for predicting adverse outcomes after 1 year of follow-up in older adults with an acute event or a chronic decompensated disease.

Most frailty instruments are designed exclusively to predict frailty.

The two frailty instruments turned out to be correlated with each other (r=0.483, P<0.001).

Of the 27 frailty instruments, five included only objective components [ 41- 45].

In fact, we included similar frailty instruments than those comprised in the recent reviews [ 83, 84].

PHNs perception of frailty, without using a standardized frailty instrument, described 335/803 (42 %) patients as frail.

Ideally, the better frailty instrument should have a sensibility and a specificity corresponding to 100%.

In addition, we used wave 4 data 55 56 (2011–2012) to validate the frailty instrument against incident disability.

The PHNs own opinion of frailty, without use of a standardized frailty instrument, described 335 (42%) subjects as frail.

The SHARE Frailty Instrument has sufficient construct and predictive validity, and is readily and freely accessible via web calculators.