Revista española de geriatría y gerontología
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Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol · May 2017
Observational Study[Frail-VIG index: Design and evaluation of a new frailty index based on the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment].
Frailty is closely linked to health results. Frailty indexes (FI) and the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) are multidimensional tools. FI serve to quantitatively measure frailty levels. They have shown to have an excellent correlation with mortality. However, they are infrequently used in clinical practice. Given the need for new, more concise, and pragmatic FI, a new FI is proposed based on a CGA (Frail-VIG Index). ⋯ Results endorse the Frail-VIG index as a simple (as for contents), rapid (for administration time) tool, with discriminative (for situational diagnosis) and predictive capacity (high correlation with mortality).