Identifying and managing frailty at the front door
Why is it important to identify frailty at the front door?
About 5-10% of all emergency department (ED) attendees and 30% of patients in Acute Medical Units are older people with frailty.
Focusing on frailty is an exercise in risk stratification - identifying a cohort at especially high risk of adverse outcomes.
One of ECIST's brilliant Rapid Improvement Guides
Rapid-Improvement-Guide-to-Identifying-and-managing-frailty-at-the-front.pdf