The Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale Version 3.1 Training. The Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale assesses the patient's current condition. Frailty is a valid and clinically important construct that's recognizable by physicians. Critical judgments about frailty can yield useful predictive information. Frailty is a term widely used to denote a multidimensional syndrome of loss of reserves such as energy, physical ability, cognition, and or overall health that gives rise to vulnerability. The chest pain MI registry aligns with the CAF PCI registry when coding this data element. CSHA Selection 1. Very fit refers to people who are robust, active, energetic, and motivated. These people commonly exercise regularly. They're among the fittest for their age. CSHA Selection 2. Well refers to people who have no active disease symptoms but are less fit than those in Category 1. Often they exercise or are very active occasionally or seasonally. CSHA Selection 3. Aging well refers to people whose medical problems are well controlled but not regularly active beyond routine walking. CSHA Selection 4. Vulnerability refers to people who are not dependent on others for daily help. However, often symptoms limit their activities. A common complaint is being slowed down and or being tired during the day. CSHA Selection 5. Mildly frail refers to people who often have more evidence slowing and need help in higher order instrumental activities of daily living such as finances, transportation, heavy housework, and or medications. Typically, mild frailty progressively impairs shopping and walking outside alone, meal preparation, and housework. CSHA Selection 6. Moderately frail refers to people who need help with all outside activities and with keeping house. Inside, they often have problems with stairs and need help with bathing and might need minimal assistance with dressing. CSHA Selection 7. Severely frail refers to people who are completely dependent on personal care from whatever cause whether physical or cognitive. Even so, they seem stable and not at high risk of dying within the next six months. CSH Selection 8. Very severely frail refers to people who are completely dependent and approaching the end of life. Typically, they could not recover even from a minor illness. CSHA Selection 9. Terminally ill refers to people who are approaching the end of life. This category applies to people with a life expectancy less than six months who are not otherwise evidently frail.

Canadian Study of Health and Aging

Clinical Frailty Scale

frailty

predictive information

loss of reserves