Why Clinical Frailty? - 2022 Quality Summit presentation (Non-CE)-Why Clinical Frailty?

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In this video, Kim Lavin, an Associate of the American College of Cardiology's Registry Science Development Team, presents on the topic of clinical frailty and its inclusion in the Chest Pain in My Registry dataset. The video discusses the rationale behind adding the data element of frailty to both the CATH PCI Registry and the Chest Pain in My Registry, as well as how it should be captured and its impact on informing metrics. The video also explores the definition of frailty, its association with cardiovascular disease, and the importance of assessing frailty in predicting outcomes and guiding interventions. The video highlights the Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale as an effective tool for measuring frailty in the registries. It also mentions the use of frailty data in predicting adverse events and mortality and its inclusion in risk assessment models.

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Kim Lavin

clinical frailty

Chest Pain in My Registry

frailty data

Canadian Study of Health and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale