Timing and methods of frailty assessments in geriatric trauma patients: A Systematic Review

The trauma population is aging and in older trauma patients, innocuous mechanisms such as a fall from standing height, can result in severe injury and poor outcomes (1,2). Triage measures such as systolic blood pressure and age poorly identify older patients at risk of adverse outcome and better prognostic measures for older trauma patients are required (3 –5). Frailty, described by Rockwood as “an evolving concept” without consensus definition, is an age-related vulnerable state in which the individual is at risk of adverse health outcomes (6,7).

Source: Injury - July 23, 2019 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Mya Cubitt, Emma Downie, Rose Shakerian, Peter W. Lange, Elaine Cole Source Type: research