Frailty Assessment in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Kenneth Jordan Ng Cheong Chung, Vijay Kunadian
Abstract
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the brief report by Labenz et al 1 entitled ‘Clinical Frailty Scale for risk stratification in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection’, which has recently been published in the Journal of Investigative Medicine . The authors explored the predictive factors for adverse outcomes in patients with COVID-19, specifically looking at the ability of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) to predict the need for mechanical ventilation and duration of hospital stays in European patients with COVID-19. By defining frailty as CFS>4, they found that patients with higher CFS scores (HR 1.659, 95% CI 1.090 to 2.525, p=0.018) had a higher risk of requiring mechanical ventilation after adjustment for age, Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and quick sepsis-related organ failure …