Frailty in Critically Ill Trauma Patients: A Prospective Observational Study to Determine Feasibility, Concordance, and Construct and Predictive Validity of Two Frailty Measures.

CONCLUSIONS: Measuring frailty in a trauma ICU population was feasible, with excellent correlation between the 2 frailty measures. Both showed aspects of construct and predictive validity; however, the FP identified frailty in more participants and was associated with more comorbidities and higher mortality at ICU discharge. Therefore, the FP might be more clinically relevant in this population. PMID: 30939205 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30939205?dopt=Abstract

Source: Physical Therapy - April 1, 2019 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Tipping CJ, Hodgson CL, Harrold M, Chan T, Holland AE Tags: Phys Ther Source Type: research

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