Brief Aids to Guide Clinical Frailty Scale Scoring at the Front Door of Acute Hospitals

Frailty is a clinical syndrome characterized by increased vulnerability to functional dependency and/or mortality attributable to 1 or more stressors.1 Given that the Emergency Department (ED) stands as a portal to multiple health care settings, the identification of frailty at the ED represents a pivotal component of care and risk assessment among older adults.2–4 Nonetheless, the implementation of frailty screening and frailty-centered care at the ED remains challenging owing to limitation of resources and manpower, prioritization of disease-specific care, time-pressured environment to assess and transfer patients to the next care area, and limited opportunities to train staff in frailty indentification.