Surrogates' and Researchers' Assessments of Prehospital Frailty in Critically Ill Older Adults.

CONCLUSIONS: Surrogates identified fewer patients as frail than did researchers. Factors involved in surrogates' assessments of patients' prehospital frailty status should be studied to see if the Clinical Frailty Scale can be modified to facilitate more accurate surrogate assessments. PMID: 30824515 [PubMed - in process]
Source: American Journal of Critical Care - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Am J Crit Care Source Type: research