2024
DOI: 10.1002/emp2.13244
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Addition of the clinical frailty scale to triage tools and early warning scores improves mortality prognostication at 30 days: A prospective observational multicenter study

Jens Wretborn,
Samia Munir‐Ehrlington,
Erika Hörlin
et al.

Abstract: ObjectivesFrailty, assessed with clinical frailty scale (CFS), alone or in combination with aggregated vital signs, has been proposed as a measure to better predict mortality of older patients in the emergency department (ED), but the added predictive value to conventional triage is unclear.MethodsThis was a secondary analysis of a prospective observational study in three EDs in Sweden that evaluated the prognostic performance of the CFS alone or in combination with the national early warning score (NEWS), tri… Show more

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