Fried Frailty Phenotype Calculator
Five-criterion physical frailty phenotype from the Cardiovascular Health Study
When to use it
Use to classify patients as Robust, Pre-frail, or Frail based on 5 physical criteria. Use the measured original CHS criteria; incomplete measurements do not establish a robust classification.
Category
Frailty Assessment
References
- Fried LP et al. Frailty in older adults: evidence for a phenotype. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2001;56:M146-56. PMID: 11253156
- McAdams-DeMarco MA et al. Frailty as a novel predictor of mortality and hospitalization in individuals of all ages undergoing hemodialysis. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013;61:896-901. PMID: 23711111
- Johansen KL et al. Significance of frailty among dialysis patients. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007;18:2960-7. PMID: 17942958
- Garonzik-Wang JM et al. Frailty and delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients. Arch Surg. 2012;147:190-3. PMID: 22351919
About NephroMind
This calculator is part of NephroMind, a free clinical decision-aid platform from the Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation (ASNRT) — over 128 bedside nephrology calculators plus a renal drug-dosing database, coded by a practicing transplant nephrologist.