The clinical frailty scale predicts 1-year mortality in emergency department patients aged 65 years and older.

Marco RueeggSøren Kabell Nissen Mikkel BrabrandTobias KaeppeliThomas DreherChristopher R CarpenterRoland BingisserChristian H Nickel

Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2022)

The CFS predicts 1-year all-cause mortality for older ED patients and predicts survival time in a graded manner. The CFS is superior to the ESI when adjusted for age, sex, and presenting condition.

Keyphrases

emergency department
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
physical activity
cardiovascular disease
type diabetes
risk factors
coronary artery disease
cardiovascular events
drug induced