Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Assessment of Frailty in Patients with Heart Failure: A New Heart Failure Frailty Score Developed by Delphi Consensus
Authors' conclusion
The HFFS is a new multidimensional tool for the identification of frailty in patients with HF. It should also enables healthcare providers to identify potential ‘red flags’ for frailty in order to develop personalized care plans. The next step will be to validate the new score in patients with HF.
Study context
- Population
- International experts developing a frailty assessment tool for patients with heart failure (HF)
- Participants
- 54 international experts
- Outcome
- Variables selected for inclusion in the Heart Failure Frailty Score (HFFS)
- Follow-up
- After the third round of the Delphi process
Methodological detailsiterative rounds of questionnaires and interviews, anonymous voting, 5-point Likert scale, 80% threshold for agreement or disagreement
- Iterative rounds of questionnaires and interviews
- Anonymous voting
- 5-point Likert scale
- 80% threshold for agreement or disagreement
Recommendations
As reported in the abstract
- Variables selected from four domains (clinical, functional, psycho-cognitive and social)
- Twenty-two
- Variables in shorter version (S-HFFS) for daily clinical use
- 10
Original publication
Assessment of Frailty in Patients with Heart Failure: A New Heart Failure Frailty Score Developed by Delphi Consensus. ESC Heart Fail. Published 4 February 2025. doi:10.
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