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Table 2 A summary of the measurement properties of multicomponent frailty assessment tools with evidence of reliability and validity that was within statistical significant parameters and of fair to excellent quality

From: Psychometric properties of multicomponent tools designed to assess frailty in older adults: A systematic review

Frailty assessment tool

Internal consistency

Reliability

Measurement error

Content validity

Structural validity

Hypothesis testing

Cross cultural validity

Criterion validity

Responsiveness

9-Item Frailty Measure [25]

   

X

 

X

   

Brief Clinical Instrument to Classify Frailty [26, 27]

     

X

   

Brief Frailty Index [28]

   

X

 

X

   

British Frailty Index [29]

         

Care Partners-Frailty Index-Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment [30]

   

X

 

X

   

Clinical Frailty Scale [3133]

   

X

 

X

   

Clinical Global Impression of Change in Physical Frailty [34]

   

X

     

Comprehensive Assessment of Frailty [3537]

     

X

   

Continuous Composite Measure of Frailty [38]

   

X

 

X

   

EASY-Care Two-step Older persons Screening [39, 40]

     

X

   

Edmonton Frail Scale [4143]

         

Evaluative Index for Physical Frailty [44]

   

X

     

FI-CGA [4547]

 

X

 

X

 

X

   

FORECAST [35, 36]

     

X

   

Frailty Index [48]

     

X

   

Frailty Index based on Primary Care Data [49, 50]

   

X

 

X

   

Frailty Index for Elders [51]

         

Frail Non-Disabled Instrument [52]

         

Frailty Screening Tool [53]

         

Groningen Frailty Indicator [27, 49, 5462]

   

X

 

X

  

X

Guilley Frailty Instrument [63]

     

X

   

Inactivity and Weight Loss [64, 65]

   

X

 

X

   

INTER-FRAIL Study Questionnaire [66]

   

X

 

X

   

KLoSHA Frailty Index [67]

   

X

 

X

   

Marigliano–Cacciafesta Polypathological Scale [68]

         

Phenotype of Frailty [2, 13, 27, 69, 70]

     

X

   

Predictive Physical Frailty Score [71]

     

X

   

Prognostic Risk Score [72]

     

X

   

Self-Report Screening Tool for Frailty [73]

     

X

   

SHARE Frailty Instrument [7478]

   

X

 

X

   

SHARE Frailty Instrument 75+ [79]

   

X

 

X

   

SOF Frailty Criteria [80, 81]

     

X

   

Strawbridge Frailty Measure [82, 83]

         

The Comprehensive Frailty Assessment Instrument [84, 85]

   

X

 

X

   

The Frailty Trait Scale [86]

   

X

 

X

   

The FRAIL Scale [87]

     

X

   

Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) [55, 57, 8894]

 

X

 

X

 

X

  

X

WHIOS Multicomponent Measure [95]

     

X