Identifying Frail Patients by Using Electronic Health Records in Primary Care: Current Status and Future Directions.
Front Public Health
; 10: 901068, 2022.
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ABSTRACT
With the rapidly aging population, frailty, characterized by an increased risk of adverse outcomes, has become a major public health problem globally. Several frailty guidelines or consensuses recommend screening for frailty, especially in primary care settings. However, most of the frailty assessment tools are based on questionnaires or physical examinations, adding to the clinical workload, which is the major obstacle to converting frailty research into clinical practice. Medical data naturally generated by routine clinical work containing frailty indicators are stored in electronic health records (EHRs) (also called electronic health record (EHR) data), which provide resources and possibilities for frailty assessment. We reviewed several frailty assessment tools based on primary care EHRs and summarized the features and novel usage of these tools, as well as challenges and trends. Further research is needed to develop and validate frailty assessment tools based on EHRs in primary care in other parts of the world.
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MEDLINE
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Fragilidad
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Límite:
Aged
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Humans
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En
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Front Public Health
Año:
2022
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Article
País de afiliación:
China