ER2 Frailty Levels and Incident Adverse Health Events in Older Community Dwellers

Jewish General Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Aging; Emergencies; Frailty

Treatments: Other: No intervention: secondary use of a database

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04431986

2021-2432

Details and patient eligibility

About

Older adults' health and functional status are heterogeneous because of the various cumulative effects of chronic diseases and physiologic decline, contributing to a vicious cycle of increased frailty 1-4. Thanks to advances in medicine and hygiene, a growing number of older adults spend more years with a greater range of chronic diseases causing disability but not mortality 5. Health systems need to face this new challenge 4,5. Quantification of frailty and its association with the occurrence of incident adverse health events (i.e., functional decline, unplanned hospitalizations) is crucial to understand how health systems may efficiently respond to this situation 6. This study aims to examine the association of the ER2 tool score and its stratification in three levels for incident adverse health events in older community dwellers and to compare this association with three validity frailty indexes which are the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) frailty index, Study of Osteoporotic Fracture (SOF) index and Rockwood frailty index.

Enrollment: 1,741 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All enrolled participants of NuAge Study who agreed to be part of the NuAge Database and Biobank for future research purposes

Exclusion criteria

• Missing data
• Participants' refusal to use their data for a purpose not identified during their recruitment.

Trial design

1,741 participants in 1 patient group

NuAge participants

Description:

All Individuals of the NuAge study who agreed to be part of the NuAge Database for future research purposes

Treatment:

Other: No intervention: secondary use of a database