Validation of the Clinical Frailty Scale for the Prediction of Mortality in Patients With Liver Cirrhosis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Frailty is a common but often underestimated complication in patients with liver cirrhosis. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) allows the assessment of frailty within a short period of time but has only been investigated in a Canadian cohort of outpatients. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the ability of the CFS to predict mortality in outpatients and nonelectively hospitalized German patients.

Methods

Two hundred outpatients and 99 nonelectively hospitalized patients with liver cirrhosis were prospectively enrolled. Outpatients/inpatients were followed for a median of 364/28 days regarding the primary outcome of death or liver transplantation. Eighty-seven patients of the outpatient cohort and 64 patients of the inpatient cohort had available computed

SUBMITTER: Kremer WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7386350 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature