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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Directors Association2019

Translating Frailty Research Into Clinical Practice: Insights From the Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation Clinic.

Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, Michelle Martinchek, Yolanda Becker, Mark K Ferguson, Katherine Thompson

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Application of Pragmatic Criteria to Assessments of Frailty and Physical Function Among People With HIV.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Megan Huisingh-ScheetzSection of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: megan.huisingh-scheetz@uchospitals.edu.
Michelle MartinchekSection of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Yolanda BeckerSection of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Mark K FergusonSection of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Katherine ThompsonSection of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
University of Chicago · US

Funding

Early Frailty Biomarkers: Patterns of Activity and Energy ExpenditureK23AG049106 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI HUISINGH-SCHEETZ, MEGAN J · 2016 to 2021
$924k
NIA NIH HHS K23 AG049106
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging researchers have been studying frailty for decades. Experts agree that frailty is a medical syndrome marked by reduced physiologic function, which increases the risk of vulnerability and short-term mortality, particularly in the face of a stressor. Frailty has been shown to predict poor outcomes including falls, disability, major morbidity following surgery, and mortality among older adults. Despite hundreds of papers identifying frailty as a useful marker of risk, its translation into clinical practice has lagged. The Successful Aging and Frailty Evaluation (SAFE) clinic was established in 2011 specifically to implement routine and structured frailty assessment and management in a variety of referred patients. Now, more than 7 years after its inception, we offer our "in the trenches" clinical perspective on logistical challenges, the clinical utility of the frailty assessment, and future frailty needs and targets to help further the frailty translation research efforts.

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Frail ElderlyHealthy AgingPractice Patterns, Physicians'Translational Research, BiomedicalAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleReferral and Consultationagingclinical practiceconsultationFrailty

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PMID30737166
PMCPMC6538427
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