Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)
Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)
- The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) was introduced by the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) in 2005 as a way to summarize the overall level of fitness or frailty of an older adult after they'd been evaluated by an experienced clinician.
- It was reviewed in 2020 and minor changes were made to the level descriptions and labels.
- Guidance and training information is available on the website along with a classification tree to help with scoring.
Information about the scale and how to use it can be found on the Dalhousie Geriatric Medicine Research(external link) site.
Links
- Users are required to complete a Permission for Use Agreement(external link).
- CFS guidance and training and classification tree.(external link)
- CFS translations(external link).
Acute Frailty Network(external link) UK provides more guidance on how to use the scale
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