Authors
Pascale Le Maguet, Antoine Roquilly, Sigismond Lasocki, Karim Asehnoune, Elsa Carise, Marjorie Saint Martin, Olivier Mimoz, Grégoire Le Gac, Dominique Somme, Catherine Cattenoz, Fanny Feuillet, Yannick Malledant, Philippe Seguin
Publication date
2014/5
Journal
Intensive care medicine
Volume
40
Pages
674-682
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Description
Purpose
Frailty is a recent concept used for evaluating elderly individuals. Our study determined the prevalence of frailty in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and its impact on the rate of mortality.
Methods
A multicenter, prospective, observational study performed in four ICUs in France included 196 patients aged ≥65 years hospitalized for >24 h during a 6-month study period. Frailty was determined using the frailty phenotype (FP) and the clinical frailty score (CFS). The patients were separated as follows: FP score <3 or ≥3 and CFS <5 or ≥5.
Results
Frailty was observed in 41 and 23 % of patients on the basis of an FP score ≥3 and a CFS ≥5, respectively. At admission to the ICU, the Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II) and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores did not differ between the frail …
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