An innovative study by Dr. Hernan Bazan at Ochsner Health and colleagues reveals how frailty assessments can accurately predict outcomes in urgent carotid artery interventions for stroke patients.

(HealthDay)—A frailty scale that includes Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG PS) may predict outcomes for transplant-ineligible patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma ...

Frailty is common in elderly people with cardiovascular disease and goes along with elevated mortality. However, no consensus exists on the definition of frailty. Many scores have been developed to ...

Frailty increased during the first year after the initiation of dialysis in patients with end-stage kidney disease. Pre-dialysis frailty was associated with an increased risk for hospitalisation, and ...

Adding frailty assessment to conventional risk scores improves the ability to predict 1-year mortality after TAVR, with the odds of death increasing alongside worsening degrees of frailty, according ...

A multidimensional frailty score may help predict postoperative outcomes in older adults. A multidimensional frailty score composed of items including dependence in activities of daily living, ...

The aim of this report was to provide quantitative information about the likelihood of a frail patient developing a postoperative complication. The assessment tool was the Hopkins Frailty Score, and ...

(HealthDay News) — A multidimensional frailty score composed of comprehensive geriatric assessments is more useful than conventional methods for predicting surgery outcomes, including all-cause ...

In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the higher the oxidative balance score, the lower the frailty risk, especially in women. Oxidative balance score (OBS) was negatively ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Combining indices of frailty and trabecular bone score did not yield improved predictive accuracy for major ...