Citation

Vairaktarakis C, Tsiamis V, Soursou G, Lekkas F, Nikolopoulou M, Vasileiadou E, Premtsis K, Alexiou A. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 2015; 820: 69-77.

Affiliation

Department of Computer Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Papasiopoulou 2-4, 53100, Lamia, Greece, cvairakt@dib.uth.gr.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-09012-2_5

PMID

25417017

Abstract

It is a common knowledge that frailty is a condition associated with getting older, and it has been considered as highly prevalent as far as falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality are concerned. At the present time a standardized definition has not yet been established. With that in mind and for frailty being of a vital importance as a term identifying geriatric symptoms, we pursued to embody the well-known 70-scale CSHA Frailty index of the Canadian Study of Health and Aging in a Clinical Decision Support System, after categorizing and expanding it. The proposed categorization in this chapter can be helpful for usage by patients and their relatives, care givers, and medical doctors.

Language: en