Older patients who have surgery are not being screened to assess how frail they are in the majority of UK hospitals, a study ...

A UK study found that 71% of hospitals are not screening older surgical patients for frailty, risking poorer outcomes and ...

Varying presentations and different means of measuring frailty make it a slippery target for ICU interventions, experts say ...

Inpatients with sepsis need targeted strategies to reduce frailty, which is a known risk factor for mortality in sepsis.

New research from the Royal College of Anesthetists (RCoA) and the University of Nottingham reveals that nearly ...

Greater frailty, older age and worse cognition heightened the odds for a post-intensive care syndrome recovery trajectory in ...

However, the handgrip strength cutoff value, which can detect individuals living with frailty based on the Clinical Frailty Scale, has not been determined before. The aim of this study was to ...

Frailty is a condition that affects nearly one in five (19.6%) surgical patients over 60. It often goes undiagnosed, yet it can lead to: Despite these risks, the study found that routine frailty ...