"Frail Elderly" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Older adults or aged individuals who are lacking in general strength and are unusually susceptible to disease or to other infirmity.
Concept/Terms
Frail Elderly- Frail Elderly
- Elderly, Frail
- Frail Elders
- Elder, Frail
- Elders, Frail
- Frail Elder
Frail Older Adults- Frail Older Adults
- Adult, Frail Older
- Adults, Frail Older
- Frail Older Adult
- Older Adult, Frail
- Older Adults, Frail
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Frail Elderly".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Frail Elderly".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Frail Elderly" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Frail Elderly" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1996 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1997 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1999 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2001 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2003 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2009 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2010 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2014 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2015 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7 | 23 |
| 2017 | 13 | 15 | 28 |
| 2018 | 14 | 12 | 26 |
| 2019 | 17 | 14 | 31 |
| 2020 | 13 | 20 | 33 |
| 2021 | 7 | 30 | 37 |
| 2022 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 2023 | 3 | 26 | 29 |
| 2024 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Frail Elderly" by people in Profiles.
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Associations Between Prior Head Injury, Physical Functioning, and Frailty in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Apr 01; 79(4).
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Performance of a Claims-Based Frailty Proxy Using Varying Frailty Ascertainment Lookback Windows. Med Care. 2024 May 01; 62(5):305-313.
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New horizons in frailty identification via electronic frailty indices: early implementation lessons from experiences in England and the United States. Age Ageing. 2024 Feb 01; 53(2).
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Switching to Direct Anticoagulation or Continued Vitamin-K Antagonists in Frail Patients With Atrial Fibrillation in Whom Vitamin-K Antagonists Are Tolerated? Circulation. 2024 01 23; 149(4):290-292.
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Preoperative Frailty and Malnutrition in Surgical Oncology Patients Predicts Higher Postoperative Adverse Events and Worse Survival: Results of a Blinded, Prospective Trial. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Apr; 31(4):2668-2678.
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The association between frailty and ageing: Results from an observational study including 9497 elderly patients. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2024 Mar; 68(3):354-360.
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Frailty and pre-frailty with long-term risk of elderly-onset inflammatory bowel disease: A large-scale prospective cohort study. Ann Epidemiol. 2023 12; 88:30-36.
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Comparison of Claims-Based Frailty Indices in U.S. Veterans 65 and Older for Prediction of Long-Term Institutionalization and Mortality. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2023 10 28; 78(11):2136-2144.
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Claims-Based Frailty Index as a Measure of Dementia Severity in Medicare Claims Data. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2023 10 28; 78(11):2145-2151.
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Associations of frailty with symptoms, and HRQOL in older cancer survivors after cancer treatments: a systematic review and meta-analyses. Qual Life Res. 2024 Mar; 33(3):583-598.