Frailty assessment
Tools and scores to identify frailty in older adults.
Papers per year
Each bar is 12 months; the last one ends 17 Oct 2026. New trials in the same years: 235, 309, 303, 384, 421.
New guidelines and consensus this year
- Bridging the Developmental Gap: Pediatric Considerations for the ISHLT Consensus Statement on Frailty in Lung TransplantationJ Heart Lung Transplant2026 Oct 8
- Executive Summary of the ASN Kidney Health Guidance on the Cardiovascular‑Kidney‑Metabolic SyndromeJ Am Soc Nephrol2026 Oct 1
- Assessing and Addressing Frailty in Candidates for Lung Transplantation: An ISHLT Consensus StatementJ Heart Lung Transplant2026 Oct
- Identification and management of sarcopenia in patients with multimorbidity: An EFIM critically appraised and adapted guidelineEur J Intern Med2026 Oct
- Peri-operative management of patients having day surgery: a consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists, British Association for Day Surgery and the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists, Great Britain and IrelandAnaesthesia2026 Sep 15
All papers from the last 12 months
4,340 papers (18 Oct 2025 – 17 Oct 2026), newest first. Loading the full list…
- Initial Experience With Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage Using Lumen-apposing Metal Stents in Extremely Elderly and Frail PatientsDEN Open2027 AprPMID 42338918
- Dynamic depression phenotypes and frailty accumulation: A longitudinal study of four Global Aging cohortsJ Affect Disord2027 Jan 1PMID 42822543
- Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher frailty risk among middle-aged and older adults: a national population-based analysis of NHANES 2007-2018Aging Male2026 Dec 31PMID 42886648
- Probable sarcopenia and bone health in transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia patientsHematology2026 Dec 31PMID 42550149
- Frailty as a mediator of the association between hyperuricemia and stroke risk: A prospective cohort studyClin Exp Hypertens2026 Dec 31PMID 42154033
- Quality of life among older adults undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a narrative reviewHematology2026 Dec 31PMID 41997889Review
- Association between circadian syndrome and frailty in middle-aged and elderly people: a longitudinal studyAging Male2026 Dec 31PMID 41928385
- Frailty and frailty progression in relation to the risk of benign prostatic hyperplasia/lower urinary tract symptoms among Chinese middle-aged and older men: a prospective cohort studyAging Male2026 Dec 31PMID 41793280
- Translating and testing feasibility and reliability of the Clinical Frailty Scale for assessing older adults in GreenlandInt J Circumpolar Health2026 Dec 31PMID 41703740
- Association of frailty index with all-cause mortality in US adults with testosterone deficiency: mediation by the platelet-to-HDL-C ratio (PHR)Aging Male2026 Dec 31PMID 41460252
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How these numbers are counted
PubMed query, searched in titles and abstracts by publication date:
frailty[tiab] AND (assessment[tiab] OR index[tiab] OR screening[tiab])Trials: ClinicalTrials.gov studies first submitted in each 12-month window that match the same terms. A query can miss synonyms or catch unrelated papers, so treat counts as approximate.