Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
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Multicenter Study
An Easy Assessment of Frailty at Baseline Independently Predicts Prognosis in Very Elderly Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes.
Information about the impact of frailty in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is scarce. No study has assessed the prognostic impact of frailty as measured by the FRAIL scale in very elderly patients with ACS. ⋯ The FRAIL scale is a simple tool that independently predicts mortality in unselected very elderly patients with ACS. The presence of prefrailty criteria also should be taken into account when performing risk stratification of these patients.
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To evaluate joint trajectories of cognition and frailty and their association with the cumulative burden of patient-reported outcomes, including hospitalization, nursing home admission, and disability. ⋯ Community-living older persons exhibit distinct joint trajectories of cognition and frailty and experience an increasing burden of nursing home admission and disability as they age, with the greatest burden for those on a cognitive frailty trajectory.