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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2026

Redefining Frailty: Planning Care Through the Frailty Trajectory Model.

Laurie Mallery, Nabha Shetty

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Redefining Frailty: Planning Care Through the Frailty Trajectory Model.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Laurie MalleryDalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0212-8396
Nabha ShettyDalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Figure 1. The frailty cycle begins when an individual is already frail and thus vulnerable to decline, designated as baseline frailty. An acute health event or medical intervention initiates the cycle. Despite usual care, there is deterioration in cognition, function, mobility, and/or symptoms, resulting in incomplete recovery. This stepwise decline defines the frailty cycle: Each event establishes a new, higher baseline of dependency and frailty, further increasing vulnerability to future adverse events. Figure adapted from www.pathclinic.ca.

Indexed as

Frail ElderlyFrailtyGeriatric AssessmentPatient Care PlanningAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMalecare planningdementiafrailtyneurodegenerative diseasepalliative care

Identifiers

PMID40955873
PMCPMC12774299

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Registered trials

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