J. Reiss, B. Iglseder, M. Kreutzer et al.

BMC Geriatr. 2016;16(1):52

The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) suggests different methods for case finding for sarcopenia. However, data comparing the different methodological options are scarce for geriatric inpatients. Muscle mass measured by BIA was highly correlated to DXA (r > 0.9), but BIA systematically overestimated muscle mass. The raw agreement between the DXA- and BIA-based approaches for classifying participants as having normal or reduced muscle mass was at best 80 % depending on the BIA cut-offs used.

M. Ritt, L.C. Bollheimer, C.C. Sieber et al.

Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2016;66:66-72.

307 patients ≥65years who were hospitalized in geriatric wards were included in this prospective analysis. A fifty-item frailty index (FI), a ten-domain+co-morbidity frailty index based on a standardized comprehensive geriatric assessment (FI-CGA), the nine category Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS-9), the CSHA rules-based frailty definition (CSHA-RBFD), and the frailty phenotype (FP) were assessed during the patients' hospital stays. Among those frailty instruments that were evaluated, the CFS-9 emerged as the most powerful for prediction of one-year mortality.

G. Kojima

Bone. 2016;90:116-122.

This systematic review and meta-analysis showed evidence that pre-frailty and frailty are significant predictors of fractures among community-dwelling older people.

T.O. Jokar, K. Ibraheem , P. Rhee et al.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 May 27. [Epub ahead of print]

Assessment of operative risk in geriatric patients undergoing emergency general surgery (EGS) is challenging. Frailty is an established measure for risk assessment in surgical cases. The aim of our study was to validate a modified 15 variable emergency general surgery specific frailty index (EGSFI). Data obtained suggest that the 15-variable validated EGSFI is a simple and reliable bedside tool to determine the frailty status of patients undergoing emergency general surgery.