Vital signs and common blood tests improve the predictive power of the Hospital Frailty Risk Score to predict poor outcomes across all adult ages
Huda Kutrani, Jim Briggs, David Prytherch, Claire Spice · 2026
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Huda Kutrani and co-authors improve a hospital frailty score in a 2026 study. Frailty forecasts long stays and death, yet the standard score uses diagnosis codes alone. It was built for older patients, though risk spans all adult ages. The team tested whether bedside signs and blood tests sharpen its forecasts.
Ten years of admissions at one English hospital supplied the data. Adding a lab based warning score gave the best stay forecasts. Adding a vital signs score gave the best death forecasts instead. Both pairings beat the frailty score on its own across time windows.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Huda Kutrani, Jim Briggs, David Prytherch, Claire Spice |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |