An electronic frailty index, derived from electronic health record (EHR) data including diagnostic codes, identified patients who had a higher risk for mortality, acute care visits, and readmissions.

Improved overall survival of metastatic cancers in the United States across all age groups in the immunotherapy era: Implications for considering elderly patients (age ≥ 75) for immune checkpoint ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

The Five-item Frailty Index (5i-FI) is a tool used by physicians to predict surgical risk and postoperative complications after a procedure. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding ...

A wrist-worn device may be an option for measuring physical frailty in ambulatory and nonambulatory patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) scheduled to undergo peripheral ...

The average human lifespan has increased at a breath-taking rate in the last century. The major problem of gerontology and ...

Frailty accelerated four to nine years before dementia started, and it was positively linked with the risk for dementia, according to four studies conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom ...

Background Lung cancer screening is effective for people at higher risk of the disease, but there is no international ...