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Development of an electronic frailty index for hospitalized geriatric patients in Sweden

2021-11-28 geriatric medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundFrailty assessment in the Swedish health system relies on the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), but it requires training, in-person evaluation, and is often missing in medical records. We aimed to develop an electronic frailty index (eFI) from routinely collected electronic health records (EHRs) and assess its predictive ability for adverse outcomes in geriatric patients. MethodsEHRs were extracted for 18,225 geriatric patients with unplanned admissions between 1/3/2020 and 17/6/2021 from...

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