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    Attention COACH STUDY participants:

    The principal investigators of the study request that you use the official version of the modified score here.

    CSHA Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)

    Measures frailty to predict survival.

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    Launched during COVID-19 crisis. COVID-19 Resource Center.

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    Why Use

    • The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a simple instrument that can be used by almost anyone to quantify degree of frailty, which is often difficult to define. 

    • The CFS correlates reasonably well with medium and long term outcomes (measured in years) of patients in terms of both mortality and need for institutional care.

    There are many frailty criteria, scores, and indices which can be lengthy and laborious to complete. The CFS has become used widely, likely due to its simplicity.

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    Dr. Kenneth Rockwood

    About the Creator

    Kenneth Rockwood, MD, MPA, FRCPC, is a professor of medicine at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also an investigator at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie. Dr. Rockwood’s primary research is focused on the complexity and clinical and epidemiological aspects of frailty, dementia, and delirium.

    To view Dr. Kenneth Rockwood's publications, visit PubMed

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