Operationalization of Frailty Using Eight Commonly Used Scales and Comparison of Their Ability to Predict All‐Cause Mortality

Abstract

Substantive differences exist between scales in their content validity, feasibility, and ability to predict all-cause mortality. These frailty scales capture related but distinct groups. Weighting items in frailty scales can improve their predictive ability, but the trade-off between specificity, predictive power, and generalizability requires additional evaluation.