From: Translation and validation of the Korean version of the clinical frailty scale in older patients
 | Participants (N = 100) |
---|---|
Age (years) | 75.6 (7.0) |
Sex | |
 Male | 63 (63.0) |
 Female | 37 (37.0) |
Body mass index (kg/m2) | 21.7 (3.5) |
Comorbidity | |
 Chronic lung disease | 44 (44.0) |
 Hypertension | 38 (38.0) |
 Cancer (oncology/hematology) | 32 (32.0) |
 Diabetes | 30 (30.0) |
 Cardiac disease (ischemic/vascular) | 26 (26.0) |
 Cerebrovascular disease | 17 (17.0) |
 Chronic kidney disease | 11 (11.0) |
Location | |
 Outpatient | 10 (10.0) |
 Inpatient | 90 (90.0) |
Primary admission cause in ward patients (N = 90) | |
 Pneumonia | 38 (42.2) |
 AE of underlying lung disease | 11 (12.2) |
 Cardiac disease | 14 (15.6) |
 Other infection | 5 (5.6) |
 Cancer related problems | 22 (24.4) |
K-MMSE scorea | 22.2 (7.2) |