Applicability and prognostic value of frailty assessment tools among hospitalized patients with advanced chronic liver disease

CONCLUSION: Frailty assessment using the evaluated tools is feasible among hospitalized cirrhotic patients, identifying those with worse prognosis. CFS had the highest applicability and accuracy for the initial assessment and LFI for the initial and follow-up assessments.PMID:33660956

Source: Croatian Medical Journal - March 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lubomir Skladany Zuzana Drotarova Janka Vnencakova Daniela Jancekova Pavol Molcan Tomas Koller Source Type: research