Trauma Specific Frailty Index

Completed

Conditions studied: Physical Trauma

In brief

Increasing age is a known predictor of morbidity and mortality after a traumatic injury with worst outcomes seen in patients with age greater than 65 years. Geriatric trauma patients are a unique cohort of patients who are highly prone to develop decompensated state following the stress of traumatic event leading to adverse outcomes. In a prospective study the primary site demonstrated the presence of frailty syndrome as a better predictor of in-hospital complications and adverse discharge disposition among geriatric trauma patients than age. Presently, Methodist Dallas Medical Center aims to participate in the large scale prospective multi-institutional validation of TSFI to assess the sensitivity and specificity of Trauma Specific Frailty Index in predicting adverse outcomes through a diverse account utilizing multiple facilities.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04216381

Run by

Methodist Health System

People needed

500

Starts

2019-09-20

Expected to finish

2023-08-16

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-24

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥65 years
• Diagnosis of physical trauma

You may not qualify if…

• Refusal of consent.
• Non-responsive patients who are unable to consent with no relative/proxy available to consent.

Where it is running

• Methodist Dallas Medical Center — Dallas, Texas, United States

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