DEVELOPING A SIMPLIFIED CLINICAL FRAILTY SCALE FOR ELDERLY PATIENTS

Tri Nguyen Van; Tran Nguyen Tran To; Hoa Le Thi Hong; Giao Tran Minh

doi:10.59354/ydth175.2024.271

Từ khóa:

CFS, Clinical Frailty Scale, elderly patients, cross-sectional study

Tóm tắt

Background: The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) assesses the degree of frailty based on simple clinical observations, comorbidities, functional status, and activity level in elderly patients. However, non-geriatric physicians often face challenges using this scale to evaluate frailty, so simplifying the Clinical Frailty Scale is a necessary problem for implementation and research.

Objective: To develop a simplified clinical frailty scale based on the Clinical Frailty Scale.

Research Subjects and Methods: Twenty medical doctors, including geriatric specialists and other specialists, were surveyed regarding the comprehensibility and applicability of the simplified Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS).

Results: Most medical doctors (90%) agreed with the simplified Clinical Frailty Scale and will use the scale to assess frailty in elderly patients (90%), with no suggestions for editing terminology

Conclusion: The simplified Clinical Frailty Scale used simpler terminology and more concise, and memorable terms than the original Clinical Frailty Scale, therefore, it was highly applicable and allowed non-geriatric physicians to assess frailty easily in elderly patients.

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