On this episode, Dr Hannah Seymour joins the podcast to talk about the Clinical Frailty Scale, a judgement-based frailty tool that evaluates specific domains including comorbidity, function, and cognition. Dr Seymour is a geriatrician based at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia and she has been researching effectiveness of employing the Clinical Frailty Scale in predicting mortality in hip fracture care.Publication: Narula, S., Lawless, A., D’Alessandro, P., Jones, C. W., Yates, P., & Seymour, H. (2020). Clinical Frailty Scale is a good predictor of mortality after proximal femur fracture: A cohort study of 30-day and one-year mortality. Bone & joint open, 1(8), 443-449.Suggested Resources:AIMS Research Group - Clinical Frailty Scale Training ModuleDalhousie University Clinical Frailty Scale Guidance and Training

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