The Identification of Frailty: A Systematic Literature Review
Maccabi Healthcare Services · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · +4 more institutions
Abstract
An operational definition of frailty is important for clinical care, research, and policy planning. The literature on the clinical definitions, screening tools, and severity measures of frailty were systematically reviewed as part of the Canadian Initiative on Frailty and Aging. Searches of MEDLINE from 1997 to 2009 were conducted, and reference lists of retrieved articles were pearled, to identify articles published in English and French on the identification of frailty in community-dwelling people aged 65 and older. Two independent reviewers extracted descriptive information on study populations, frailty criteria, and outcomes from the selected papers, and quality rankings were assigned. Of 4,334 articles…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 21.96
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 51
Authors
5- SAShelley A. SternbergCorresponding
Maccabi Healthcare Services
- AWAndrea Wershof Schwartz
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- SKSathya Karunananthan
McGill University, Université de Montréal
- HBHoward Bergman
Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Université de Montréal
- AMA. Mark Clarfield
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Gerontology
- MEDLINE
- Mood
- Systematic review
- Geriatrics
- Identification (biology)
- Institutionalisation
- Reduced inequalities