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Using the Clinical Frailty Scale in Allocating Scarce Health Care Resources by Rockwood, Kenneth, Theou, Olga

“…The key idea behind the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is that, as people age, they are more likely to have things wrong with them. Those things they have wrong…”
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A scoping review of the Clinical Frailty Scale by Church, Sophie, Rogers, Emily, Rockwood, Kenneth, Theou, Olga

“…Frailty is increasingly recognized as an important construct which has health implications for older adults. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a…”
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Frailty Defined by Deficit Accumulation and Geriatric Medicine Defined by Frailty by Rockwood, Kenneth, MD, FRCPC, FRCP, Mitnitski, Arnold, PhD

“…As nonreplicative cells age, they commonly accumulate subcellular deficits that can compromise function. As people age, they too experience problems that can…”
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Fifteen years of progress in understanding frailty and health in aging by Rockwood, Kenneth, Howlett, Susan E

“…The notion of frailty has evolved for more than 15 years. Although there is no consensus definition, frailty reflects a state of increased vulnerability to…”
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Prevalence and 10-Year Outcomes of Frailty in Older Adults in Relation to Deficit Accumulation by Song, Xiaowei, Mitnitski, Arnold, Rockwood, Kenneth

“…OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prevalence and 10‐year outcomes of frailty in older adults in relation to deficit accumulation. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study…”
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Frailty in primary care: a review of its conceptualization and implications for practice by Lacas, Alethea, Rockwood, Kenneth

“…Frail, older patients pose a challenge to the primary care physician who may often feel overwhelmed by their complex presentation and tenuous health status. At…”
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Measuring Frailty in Medicare Data: Development and Validation of a Claims-Based Frailty Index by Kim, Dae Hyun, Schneeweiss, Sebastian, Glynn, Robert J, Lipsitz, Lewis A, Rockwood, Kenneth, Avorn, Jerry

“…Frailty is a key determinant of health status and outcomes of health care interventions in older adults that is not readily measured in Medicare data. This…”
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Frailty in elderly people by Clegg, Andrew, Dr, Young, John, Prof, Iliffe, Steve, Prof, Rikkert, Marcel Olde, Prof, Rockwood, Kenneth, Prof

“…Summary Frailty is the most problematic expression of population ageing. It is a state of vulnerability to poor resolution of homoeostasis after a stressor…”
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Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies by O’Caoimh, Rónán, Sezgin, Duygu, O’Donovan, Mark R, Molloy, D William, Clegg, Andrew, Rockwood, Kenneth, Liew, Aaron

“…Abstract Introduction The prevalence of frailty at population level is unclear. We examined this in population-based studies, investigating sources of…”
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Conceptual Models of Frailty: Accumulation of Deficits by Rockwood, Kenneth, MD, FRCPC, FRCP, FCAHS

“…Abstract Frailty was introduced to explain why people of the same age have varying degrees of risk. The deficit accumulation approach shows that as people age,…”
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Validation of a Claims-Based Frailty Index Against Physical Performance and Adverse Health Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study by Kim, Dae Hyun, Glynn, Robert J, Avorn, Jerry, Lipsitz, Lewis A, Rockwood, Kenneth, Pawar, Ajinkya, Schneeweiss, Sebastian

“…A claims-based frailty index (CFI) was developed based on a deficit-accumulation approach using self-reported health information. This study aimed to…”
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Relationship of body mass index with frailty and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older adults by Jayanama, Kulapong, Theou, Olga, Godin, Judith, Mayo, Andrea, Cahill, Leah, Rockwood, Kenneth

“…Parallel to growth of aging and obese populations, the prevalence of metabolic diseases is rising. How body mass index (BMI) relates to frailty and mortality…”
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Open peer review commentary on building clinically relevant outcomes across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum by Rockwood, Kenneth

“…[...]three questions: (1) To whom is the outcome relevant? (2) How is clinical meaningfulness demonstrated? (3) When is it achieved? [...]three perspectives:…”
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The impact of frailty on intensive care unit outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Muscedere, John, Waters, Braden, Varambally, Aditya, Bagshaw, Sean M., Boyd, J. Gordon, Maslove, David, Sibley, Stephanie, Rockwood, Kenneth

“…Purpose Functional status and chronic health status are important baseline characteristics of critically ill patients. The assessment of frailty on admission…”
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What would make a definition of frailty successful? by Rockwood, Kenneth

“…At present, frailty is defined variably. Some consensus on a definition is likely to emerge, but the basis for a successful definition needs to be explored…”
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New horizons in multimorbidity in older adults by Yarnall, Alison J, Sayer, Avan A, Clegg, Andrew, Rockwood, Kenneth, Parker, Stuart, Hindle, John V

“…The concept of multimorbidity has attracted growing interest over recent years, and more latterly with the publication of specific guidelines on multimorbidity…”
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Frailty and Its Definition: A Worthy Challenge by Rockwood, Kenneth

“…In an editorial Rockwood comments on definitions of frailty in relation to geriatrics. One challenge for geriatrics is to state how to embrace the complexity…”
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Frailty status at admission to hospital predicts multiple adverse outcomes by Hubbard, Ruth E, Peel, Nancye M, Samanta, Mayukh, Gray, Leonard C, Mitnitski, Arnold, Rockwood, Kenneth

“…frailty is proposed as a summative measure of health status and marker of individual vulnerability. We aimed to investigate the discriminative capacity of a…”
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Investigation of frailty as a moderator of the relationship between neuropathology and dementia in Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project by Wallace, Lindsay M K, Theou, Olga, Godin, Judith, Andrew, Melissa K, Bennett, David A, Rockwood, Kenneth

“…Some people with substantial Alzheimer's disease pathology at autopsy had shown few characteristic clinical symptoms or signs of the disease, whereas others…”
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The impact of frailty on postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery patients by Jung, Patrick, BSc, Pereira, Michael Ashley, BSc, Hiebert, Brett, MSc, Song, Xiaiwei, PhD, Rockwood, Kenneth, MD, Tangri, Navdeep, MD, PhD, Arora, Rakesh C., MD, PhD

“…Abstract Objective To determine if adding frailty measures to the EuroSCORE II improves model performance in predicting postoperative delirium. Methods In a…”
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