{"title":"Frailty in a Community Hospital in Singapore: Prevalence and Contributing Factors","authors":"Jeffrey Jiang, A. Han, Xin Tan, J. Goh, B. Tan","doi":"10.33879/amh.2020.062-1907.015","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The FRAIL scale was utilised to screen older adult patients aged 65 and above who were admitted as inpatients from 1 July 2017 to 30 April 2018, or seen as outpatients from 1 August to 31 December 2017. A total of 647 inpatients and 616 outpatients were screened. Data was analysed for both groups to determine the prevalence and contributing factors of frailty and compared with baseline demographic data.","PeriodicalId":36784,"journal":{"name":"Aging Medicine and Healthcare","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Aging Medicine and Healthcare","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33879/amh.2020.062-1907.015","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The FRAIL scale was utilised to screen older adult patients aged 65 and above who were admitted as inpatients from 1 July 2017 to 30 April 2018, or seen as outpatients from 1 August to 31 December 2017. A total of 647 inpatients and 616 outpatients were screened. Data was analysed for both groups to determine the prevalence and contributing factors of frailty and compared with baseline demographic data.
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