Background: Prognostic information at the time of hospital discharge can help guide goals-of-
care discussions for future care. We sought to assess the association between the Hospital …

To externally validate the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) in critically ill patients. We
selected older adult (≥ 75 years old) hospitalizations receiving mechanical ventilation …

Background This large-scale analysis pools individual data about the Clinical Frailty Scale
(CFS) to predict outcome in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods A systematic search …

Purpose Frailty is a common condition among critically ill patients. Usually evaluated in a
mixed population of medical, cardiac and surgical patients, we aimed to assess the impact of …

Purpose Frailty is a recent concept used for evaluating elderly individuals. Our study
determined the prevalence of frailty in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and its impact on the …

Purpose To determine whether frailty can be measured within 4 days prior to hospital
discharge in older intensive care unit (ICU) survivors of respiratory failure and whether it is …

Objective Frailty is a relatively new concept for intensivists, and is defined as a status of
increased vulnerability to stressors associated with reduced reserve and function of different …

Dear Editor, We thank Bruno et al.[1] for their interest in our manuscript. As the authors
highlight, our retrospective analysis shows a clear relationship between the Hospital Frailty …

Background studies comparing different frailty measures in intensive care unit settings are
lacking. We aimed to compare the frailty index based on physiological and laboratory tests …

Background While frailty is a known predictor of adverse outcomes in older patients, its effect
in younger populations is unknown. This prospective observational study was conducted in …