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Frailty is the strongest predictor of who will be harmed by treatment, but it is rarely measured. Software can estimate it automatically from existing records and flag patients who need a closer look.
Electronic frailty indices derived from coded diagnoses, prescriptions, and utilisation are used in primary care in England and predict outcomes well. An oncology version, computed automatically at referral and displayed with the staging information, would identify patients who should have a full geriatric assessment and would allow frailty-stratified outcome reporting. It requires validation against clinical frailty scales and treatment outcomes.
Shares Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.
Shares Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.
Shares Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.
Shares Geriatric assessment by default for every patient over 70 starting cancer treatment, Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.
Shares Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.
Shares Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.
Shares Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.
Shares Geriatric assessment, Older and multimorbid patients are excluded and undertreated.