The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool developed by the Geriatrics Division of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass ...

2005). Although introduced as a means of summarizing a multidimensional assessment in an epidemiological setting, the CFS quickly evolved for clinical use, and has been widely taken up as a ...

More information: Katharine J. Russell et al, Establishing a clinically applicable frailty phenotype screening tool for aging ...

Other advantages of this approach are: it can be applied to almost any health dataset it is a comprehensive assessment of health it provides a continuous score from fitness to frailty it is more ...

Among the total systemic sclerosis cohort, 14% of individuals were categorized as frail and 53% as prefrail, with frailty status linked to an increased risk for mortality.

Ewa Pickersgill describes the success of a scheme aiming to reduce variation in care for people living with frailty.

One of the major components of the grant is the Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA). Primary care providers can use this screening tool to assess frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) and ...

Increasing assessment throughput ... become the standard tool in what is potentially a multibillion-euro market. GaitKeeper’s first-use case is to detect fall and frailty risk.